Root user cant be enabled/disabled

Hello, I am an inexperienced OS X user, and I started searching about user priviliges for a while just in case for security. And when I found out about root user, I started tinkering about my Macbooks unusual activites such as not waking up from sleep, sometimes running fans at full speed at idle, uploading at unnecessary speeds even when no activity going on at my computer, may be about a person who had access to my mac back a while ago that activated root user and accessing my mac remotely since back then.
So I tried disabling that root user, but I couldnt disable it from directory utility screen, nor with the terminal command dsenableroot -d. It just says failed to disable root user. `

I need help about this problem. Thank you

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch,Early 2015), OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Sep 19, 2016 5:01 AM

18 replies

Sep 19, 2016 7:03 AM in response to Batuhayabusa

Do command + q and quit each program. Closing the window does not quit a running program on a Mac. You can do command + tab to see what programs are still running. One of them is Console, which was opened in Applications/Utility.

Have a nice day.

Barney-15E

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Sep 19, 2016 6:30 PM in response to Batuhayabusa

I also found something like this in my directory editor. Maybe it can help.

The "unknown" user is normal and has nothing to do with the root user.

Barney-15E

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Sep 19, 2016 6:36 PM in response to Batuhayabusa

Root is not logged in, so that wasn't the problem trying to disable it.

When on the login window, do you see an option for "Other"?

In Sharing System Preferences, is Remote Login enabled? If it is not enabled, nobody could log in remotely.

How about any of the other sharing services?

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Root user cant be enabled/disabled