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  Learning the Mac OS X Terminal, Part 2
Subject:   Accessing ~root
Date:   2003-05-20 16:41:14
From:   anonymous2
Response to: Accessing ~root

i'm having the same problem, any solutions??
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  • Accessing ~root
    2003-05-20 16:58:14  anonymous2 [View]

    Got it, all you have to do is type SU in the Terminal hit [enter] and then state your password.
    • Chris Stone photo Accessing ~root
      2003-05-20 17:03:11  Chris Stone | O'Reilly AuthorO'Reilly Blogger [View]

      Yes, that'll fix it. But from this error, it sounds like you're running 10.2, which has different permissions set for ~root than 10.1 (which this article was written for).

      If you are using 10.2 or newer, you should not be following this tutorial, but these instead:

      http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/12/06/terminal_osx.html
      http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/01/24/terminal_osx.html
      http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/03/21/terminal_osx.html

      Hope that helps...

      --Chris