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4 points

Terminal root user

Hi,

i activated the root-user in system preferences but the given password wont work in terminal, when i type a su (sudo) command.

Even my administrator or user password wont work...

Who can help?

Thanks

kitehi

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Dec 8, 2012 11:48 PM

17 replies

kitehi wrote:

to give an example: sudo mdutil -a -i on

What password?

None of the passwords (user/ admin/root) would be accepted.

If you supply the wrong password Terminal normally responds with:

Sorry, try again.

Is that what you get?

I notice that mditil will not override Spotlight's privacy preferences settings.

Level 1

4 points

Hi,

i get this "sorry" but i found out, that i was to stupid...;)

I had to change to an admin account and everthing works fine.

Thank you all, for your help.

-s

Terminal root user