Hy folks
I use the process suggested by Apple to activ and set the root password.
But when I wrote it in a terminal window, I have the message "sorry try again".
I reboot my mac but I have the same error again.
Someone have an idea ?
Thanks for your answers.
Paulo
Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
Root account should only be enabled by those who know its consequences. With one wrong move, you can wipe out your entire hard drive.
Read some good books on Unix before proceeding.
Reset your administrator password, and root should be able to work properly.
First thanks to answer me
Your suggest won't succeeded.
Why I need to use the root account ? well, I want to use the apache server inside mavericks.
Do you know an other way t activ it ? after several search, I only found this one.
I appreciate all your suggests.
Thanks
Paulo
Good point. I will ask this thread be moved to the Unix forum. I agree, this is kind of amiss that Apple dropped personal web sharing from 10.8 and later without root command that I can find.
Just use sudo to start apache.
See Setting up a local web server on OS X for directions on getting a web server runnig in the system
Apple didn't drop the web server from 10.8 and 10.9, apache is still there.
The only thing Apple removed was the web server setting in System Preferences. Sudo is more then sufficient to do these tasks, no need to enable root.
Frank,
I fail to see where sudo is not enabling root? After all, can't someone for a limited time after setting this up, run amuck with otherwise deleting system level files that normally can't be touched? Is it not easily as dangerous? When you man sudo, it tells you that you are running as superuser. Before when you enabled Personal Web Sharing under Lion or earlier, no administrative password was necessary.
There are differences between using sudo and enabling the root account especially from a system security standpoint. But that is a discussion for a different time.
Back when you could turn apache on or off from System Preferences you would still need to use sudo to set up the config files at a minimum and you would need to be a sys admin to access the preferences. So the only thing that has really changed is how apache gets turned on/off.
But we're getting off topic here. To the OP you do not need to enable the root account as long as your log in account is a System Administrator account you can do what you need to do using sudo.
regards
Hi folks,
Terminal do a good job but when I used "sudo" or "su" he based on the active login of macOSX. the trouble was my mac account was not an administrator account.
So after transform this one, the command "sudo" was succesfull.
Well, we learn something each day.
It's why it's amazing
thanks for your support
Paulo
Glad we were able to help
Regards
I always run with a standard account. If I need to do something as root, I can use su to become the admin user and then use sudo to perform actions as root.
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