I have tried disabling my root user, but am not able to do this.
My computer is my own and I am the only administrator and user, who has ever existed on my computer.
I have tried disabling my root user, but without succes.
The "Disable root user" seems to be greyed out, though it is still active, if I try to log in as root user.
Any help?
Thank you in advance
- Brian
MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008), OS X Mavericks (10.9)
You must authenticate (unlock the locker), to activate the grayed out items in Directory Utility's Edit menu.
I have authenticated myself both as the admin of the computer as well as the root user, though still only seeing the greyed out "disable root user" in both cases.
Be sure to be logged in as an admin user.
Open Terminal and type
dsenableroot -dthe system will prompt you like this
username = youradminuser
user password:youradminuser is the name of the user you are logged in. Type in your admin user password and confirm. Please note that the password won't be echoed.
After a couple of seconds you'll get
dsenableroot:: ***Successfully disabled root user.Cannot disable root user