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<blockquote data-quote="milessthomas" data-source="post: 378308" data-attributes="member: 27943"><p>I believe "ride" is correct that you can reset your root password that way. But the root password is not the same as your admin password in OS X your root password is used for Superuser(sudo) so you don't have to type sudo everytime you use terminal but you do have the correct steps to reset the root password if thats what your attempting to do.</p><p></p><p>But unless you know what you are doing I would not use the superuser account in terminal and frankly its best to add a standard user account to avoid making system changes that are irreversible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="milessthomas, post: 378308, member: 27943"] I believe "ride" is correct that you can reset your root password that way. But the root password is not the same as your admin password in OS X your root password is used for Superuser(sudo) so you don't have to type sudo everytime you use terminal but you do have the correct steps to reset the root password if thats what your attempting to do. But unless you know what you are doing I would not use the superuser account in terminal and frankly its best to add a standard user account to avoid making system changes that are irreversible. [/QUOTE]
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