Apparently in order to run git I need to enter my root password once. I disabled root long ago, and I have an admin account. How do I change root pw without knowing root pw? How did root pw ever get set or changed without me knowing it?
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
git should not require you to use root. You may be following bad advice or installing something that has poor/ insecure instructions.
You may get better advice if you explain what you are trying to do. sudo can allow root access without setting a root password too, which may be more appropriate.
There are a few ways you can go about doing this. You can go directly through disk utilities (assuming you already have an admin account you know the login of) and click on the edit tab and change root administrator password. Now if this prompts you to have the root admin password already, which I do not think it will since you said you have disable the root user, then you can change it in single user mode through the guides that I will post below.
To change password through single user mode : http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/57119/how-can-i-get-admin-access-to-a-m ac-without-knowing-the-current-password/57152#57152
More on the subject: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/79989/how-do-i-change-the-root-password
Read this Apple Knowledge Base article....
change root password from admin account
