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Recover root/wheel password?

From	briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon)
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Recover root/wheel password?
Date	2019-01-07 16:51 -0500
Organization	PANIX -- Public Access Networks Corp.
Message-ID	<q10hl1$ief$1@panix3.panix.com> (permalink)

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My mac's environment was created eons ago, but my personal login has most
superpowers.  I need to delete a file owned by root/wheel and I am not being
allowed to do it. Is there some way a privileged user can recover the needed
password?

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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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