{"id":443,"date":"2020-10-24T15:53:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T13:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expanic.at\/wordpress\/2020\/10\/24\/enable-root-in-single-user-mode\/"},"modified":"2020-10-24T15:53:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T13:53:42","slug":"enable-root-in-single-user-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expanic.at\/wordpress\/2020\/10\/24\/enable-root-in-single-user-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Enable root in Single User Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Enable the \u201croot\u201d user using Single User Mode in Mac OS X<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Hold down the&nbsp;<strong>Command (<\/strong><strong>\u2318<\/strong><strong>)<\/strong>+&nbsp;<strong>S<\/strong>&nbsp;buttons whilst turning on the machine, the system will then boot into&nbsp;<em>Single User Mode<\/em><\/li><li>at the prompt type:\/sbin\/fsck -fy<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>at the prompt type:\/sbin\/mount -uw \/<\/li><li>at the prompt type:launchctl load \/System\/Library\/LaunchDaemons\/com.apple.opendirectoryd.plist<\/li><li>at the prompt type:passwd root<ul><li>you will be prompted to enter a password twice<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>at the prompt type:reboot<\/li><li>The Mac will now restart and take you to the logon screen, log into the Mac as the <strong>root <\/strong>user and use the password set in the step above.<\/li><li>An additional step you can take to confirm the root user has been logged in is checking the Users &amp; Groups in Systems Preferences, the logged on user should state <strong>System Administrator<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Enable the \u201croot\u201d user using Single User Mode in Mac OS X Hold down the&nbsp;Command (\u2318)+&nbsp;S&nbsp;buttons whilst turning on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,31,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacks","category-mac","category-terminal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/expanic.at\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/expanic.at\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/expanic.at\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expanic.at\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expanic.at\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/expanic.at\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/expanic.at\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expanic.at\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expanic.at\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}