Comments on: Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard – Enable Root Access

By: Arun

Arun — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:14:15 +0000

Am new mac… Have mac OSX 10.5…. I cant find the edit menu in directory utility… wat to do??

By: John H.

John H. — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:41:08 +0000

At first glance, it seems as though the “Enable Root User” is greyed out and unusable, but if you ckick the unlock icon in the lower left corner, you can access that menu item (We’re assuming, of course, that you are logged in as an admin in the first place.).

By: Mike S.

Mike S. — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:49:06 +0000

Hello, i’m trying to do the same but the option “Enable root user” in disk utility it’s sharpen and i can’t click it!!

By: Randy

Randy — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:54:25 +0000

Nice. Would sudo -s also do what you want? Regardless, it’s always good to learn new ways to do things…

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:39:09 +0000

Schhueeettt! thanks!

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Sun, 04 May 2008 04:25:43 +0000

Thanks for this! Much appreciated.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:34:05 +0000

Nice Post! I actually always wondered about this and never spent the time to figure it out. For some reason sudo would always work with my password. At least now i won’t have to put sudo in front of everything.