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Article:		Learning the Mac OS X Terminal, Part 2
Subject:		Accessing ~root
Date:		2003-05-20 16:58:14
From:		anonymous2
Response to: Accessing ~root
Got it, all you have to do is type SU in the Terminal hit [enter] and then state your password.

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• Accessing ~root
  2003-05-20 17:03:11  Chris Stone | [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