Re: [10.4.10] How do I regain root/admin access?
- From: haberg@xxxxxxxxxx (Hans Aberg)
- Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:44:45 GMT
In article <9ZHii.20501$RX.753@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Eric P.
Peterson" <ericp06@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...attempting to change the short username for the root user account...
If this is the account at /var/root/ with user name "root", don't change it.
...I'd greatly appreciate some helpful advice as to a solution
here, ...
This can be changed using 'chpass', see the man-page. You can even change
user and directory names independently.
The setup I find most convenient: Install the Fink emacs-21.2 which
supports X11; put into the file .profile:
export DISPLAY=:0.0
export EDITOR=emacs
Then start X11 and type say in Terminal (from an admin account):
sudo -s
chpass <username>
where <username> is the user name. Edit data in Emacs, save, and quit it
(the new data will be read and installed at quit). You may have to log out
to see the changes taking effect (don't remember). And the OS might
possibly become confused by this method, if you try to reuse old user
names. :-)
Hans Aberg
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