Oh okay. So your wanting your regular non admin user to login as root.
I believe that if you add your regular user to the sudo file and the try the "sudo su - root", that should work. Do you want your regular user to have sudo ability, or are you trying to switch to root not using sudo? One fix would be "$ sudo vi /etc/sudoers" add your user to the sudo list. i.e. $ sudo cat /etc/sudoers [...] # User privilege specification root ALL=(ALL) ALL %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL YOURUSER<TAB>ALL=(ALL)<SPACE>ALL [...] $ Then please retry "sudo su - root". I hope this help, if I've missed the point again please let me know. On 4 April 2012 17:18, <[email protected]> wrote: > No, both exhibit the same problem - when it asks for my password I can supply > my standard user password, admin password or root password and it rejects all > three! > > My normal login, Stephen, is not an Admin user. I have to supply login user > and password whenever I want to add or remove anything in the Applications > folder for example. > > Cheers, > > Stephen > > > On 4 Apr 2012, at 16:20, John Patrick wrote: > >> Does "$ sudo ls -l" work for you if so, try "$ sudo su - root". > > Don't dream it, be it. - Frank N. Furter > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
