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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1807855" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>That post may be referring to the Root account. You can read about it here: <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204012" target="_blank">https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204012</a></p><p></p><p>However, 99.9% of us never need Root account activated. And it is a very powerful account, as the warning box in that article indicates. Basically Root can do anything, even so far as to wipe out the entire boot drive, including the OS, basically killing even the Root account. </p><p></p><p>All you will ever need to do on a Mac can be done by an Admin account. So you don't need to invoke Root, ever.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1807855, member: 396914"] That post may be referring to the Root account. You can read about it here: [url]https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204012[/url] However, 99.9% of us never need Root account activated. And it is a very powerful account, as the warning box in that article indicates. Basically Root can do anything, even so far as to wipe out the entire boot drive, including the OS, basically killing even the Root account. All you will ever need to do on a Mac can be done by an Admin account. So you don't need to invoke Root, ever. [/QUOTE]
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