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to: Adam Flinton
from: Tony Williams
date: 2002-12-20 21:01:38
subject: Re: OSX..help required

From: Tony Williams 

Adam Flinton wrote:
> Oh & btw....how does one become root on a Mac? I have cunning plan m'lord
> involving an ssh client & the command "shutdown -h now"
sent from my mum's
> machine.....when I return it to him....
>
> Can  I use passwd root & change it to something I'd like if I'm an
admin &
> if so will it screw anything up?

"su", or if you don't know the root password try "sudo
-s" when logged in as an admin level user.

--
Tony

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