- Have you took away sudo access for mac root user? install#
- Have you took away sudo access for mac root user? password#
Where it is possible to have root priviledges in the shell environment, the GUI user interface limits this ability. I strongly recommend that you do not modify /private/etc/sudoers. Sudo can be expanded using visudo to modify /private/etc/sudoers where you could grant user other than admins to use certain tools within the operating system. Even though root is a non-login user an admin user can become root. Here's another example:Įvery time I add sudo to a command, I become the root user. Here's a few example in the Terminal application: This file grants admin users the right to become the root user and use all the tools owned by root to administer the computer. An admin user would be nothing without a special file- /private/etc/sudoers. The root account is then disabled (root becomes a non-login user) and the setup process creates the first user who is an administrator.
Have you took away sudo access for mac root user? install#
When you install OS X, it is installed by the root user. Only the root user can install system software. Let me expand on the other posts and hopefully answer your questions. It is very easy to break your OS as root, and I would strongly caution anybody considering enabling their root user to be aware of that.
Have you took away sudo access for mac root user? password#
Even then they don't login to root or invoke "su" unless they have a lot of modifications to do and don't want to type "sudu" and give the admin password several dozen times in a row. They have a personal account for everything they want to use the computer for, and then a root account for when they need to actually administer the system. "sudo" grants the same temporary "root-like" privileges to admin accounts, as the installers and OS functions mentioned above.Įven Unix experts who have spent decades on a Unix machine, do not use the root account for their personal account. (this is akin to using "sudo" before /every/ command. 1) the login window gains a button that says "other" which will allow you to manually log in and operate the system as root, and 2) From any account in the terminal window you can invoke the "su" command once and thereby change over to the root user (within that Terminal window) from that point forward. Once you enable the root user, two abilities are enabled that everybody should stay away from unless they really really (no joke!) do know what they are doing. On a side note, the short name 'root' has the long name of 'System Administrator' and this account is logged into when booting from the install CD / DVD. Your root account has not been enabled, unless you have gone into NetInfo Manager and enabled the root user and given it a root password. Most users running OS X are "rootless" which means the root account has not been enabled. These include force-deleting certain files, and using installers that modify the System Library. Kappy is right when he says that system administrators do not have root privileges, however, certain functions of the OS and installers will temporarily grant "root-like" privileges for the purpose of administering the system. Are you aware of any apple doc's that better explain the relationship of the admin and root user's? Thanks again Kappy. But is this the only time, when logged in as the admin user, that one can invoke the "root" user? How does one invoke the "root" user other than terminal? I've read that one should never log in and operate as the "root" user.
I've used Terminal many times (though no UNIX expert, by far, just somewhat comfortable) so I'm aware of the "sudo" command. "I enter the same password when logging in as when I'm asked for a password when making a root level command."įor clarification, when I said root level command, I better meant entering the same password for logging in as installing software, force deleting, etc. Referring to my posting message for an example of using the same password for two completely different commands: Unless I set-up the Admin user acct and Root user acct to have the same password (would be stupid) when I started using my Mac for the first time, I still don't understand which is which. My time getting used to the Mac environment would certainly have been much more difficult if not for you and others alike.Īfter reading your reply I still find myself a bit confused, as to the terminology at hand.
So I'd first like to say thanks to you and all others willing to share with others their superior knowledge of the OS X system. I think you've helped me out sometime ago on another question I had as well.
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