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Re: Recover root/wheel password?

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On 2019-01-10, Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
> On 2019-01-09 21:13, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2019-01-10, Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
>>> On 2019-01-09 15:30, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "My Free Pascal install didn't work correctly after upgrading to
>>>> macOS 10.14"
>>>>
>>>> ...is nowhere *near* the same thing as your statement:
>>>>
>>>> "10.14" is nowhere *near* the same thing as your statement that
>>>> "Mojave Command Line tools for 10.14 don't work well".
>>>>
>>>
>>>   From my seat and use case that's the way it was...
>> 
>> Nope.
>> 
>>>> The command-line tools in macOS 10.14 work very well. What doesn't
>>>> work well is your Free Pascal setup.
>>>>
>>>>> One poster on a Pascal site suggested adding a particular path to
>>>>> the fpc.cfg, but I couldn't get it to save.  (Now I realize I
>>>>> probably had to use vi, but not sure...).  I changed the permissions
>>>>> on the file, to no avail ... (changed 'em back too).
>>>>
>>>> Do you have a good understanding of how *nix permissions work? It
>>>> sounds like perhaps not. The editor you use isn't the issue;
>>>> permissions are.  You could have used nano, emacs, vi, or any other,
>>>> as long as you did it with sudo or changed the permissions of the
>>>> file you were editing to allow you to write access to it.
>>>
>>> 1.  Used sudo.
>> 
>> Not correctly, you didn't.
>> 
>>> TextWrangler or Textedit would not save the modified file.
>> 
>> Due to the configured permissions.
>> 
>>> 2. Change the permissions of the file and verified the change.  Same
>>> result.
>> 
>> Not correctly, you didn't.
>
> Not something one can mess up very hard, is it?

Not if they know what they are doing...

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Recover root/wheel password? briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2019-01-07 16:51 -0500
  Re: Recover root/wheel password? Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2019-01-07 13:58 -0800
  Re: Recover root/wheel password? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2019-01-07 23:09 +0000
  Re: Recover root/wheel password? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-08 01:45 +0000
    Re: Recover root/wheel password? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-08 08:27 -0500
      Re: Recover root/wheel password? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-08 14:06 +0000
        Re: Recover root/wheel password? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-08 20:07 -0500
          Re: Recover root/wheel password? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-09 20:30 +0000
            Re: Recover root/wheel password? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-09 19:43 -0500
              Re: Recover root/wheel password? Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2019-01-09 16:55 -0800
              Re: Recover root/wheel password? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-10 02:13 +0000
                Re: Recover root/wheel password? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-10 07:48 -0500
                Re: Recover root/wheel password? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-10 17:34 +0000
      Re: Recover root/wheel password? Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2019-01-08 11:34 -0800
      Re: Recover root/wheel password? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2019-01-08 22:12 +0000
        Re: Recover root/wheel password? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-08 20:11 -0500
  Re: Recover root/wheel password? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-07 23:42 -0500
    Re: Recover root/wheel password? briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2019-01-08 05:01 +0000
      Re: Recover root/wheel password? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-08 00:43 -0500

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