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| From | Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system |
| Subject | Re: Recover root/wheel password? |
| Date | 2019-01-08 22:12 +0000 |
| Organization | Miskatonic U |
| Message-ID | <slrnq3a823.2i0h.g.kreme@Snow.local> (permalink) |
| References | <q10hl1$ief$1@panix3.panix.com> <g9idljFheb9U8@mid.individual.net> <pcydnf-nHfzcOKnBnZ2dnUU7-LudnZ2d@giganews.com> |
In message <pcydnf-nHfzcOKnBnZ2dnUU7-LudnZ2d@giganews.com> Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote: > On 2019-01-07 20:45, Jolly Roger wrote: >> On 2019-01-07, Brian Gordon <briang@panix.com> wrote: >>> 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? >> >> Use "sudo" (assuming you are in am administrator account). > I was trying to add a path to a .cfg in the /etc folder the other day > and sudo appeared to work ... but I could not save changes to the file > (using Textwrangler or Textedit). > In the end, it seems, Mojave Commande Line tools for 10.14 don't work They do. > well; set up 10.13 CL compatible tools and my compiler works fine now... I have no idea what you think you did, but I fear for your system. -- To read makes our speaking English good.
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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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