I'm logged in as a non-root user with uid 0, and whoami tells me it thinks I'm "root" too. But I still can't get this vendor install script that "requires root access" to finish. So what other ...

Logging in as the root user should never be done on Linux. Using the root account could lead to disaster. Sudo is the preferred method of gaining elevated privileges. When I first started using Linux ...

Enabling the root user on a Mac grants you the highest level of access to the system, allowing you to perform tasks that require deep system modifications. However, this powerful account is disabled ...

[Update: Apple quickly released Security Update 2017-001 to fix this bug. Read our current coverage at “Apple Pushes Updates to Block the Root Vulnerability Bug” (30 November 2017).] You can expect a ...

More problems applying Users continue to report problems with applying the Mac Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.1. We previously noted that users having problems applying the update should follow these ...

A newly discovered bug in macOS High Sierra enables the root superuser on a Mac with a blank password and no security check, essentially giving anyone full access to your Mac. Apple is likely already ...

Earlier this afternoon on Twitter, a developer posted a screenshot and reported it was possible to obtain root access on Apple’s High Sierra without a password. [Note: Apple has released a fix for ...

For many cloud apps, administrators are given a super admin account credential, also known as the root account, which allows wide-reaching administrative access to the account. These super admin ...

Amazon has long recommended that you use your AWS root account as seldom as possible, using instead an IAM account. The main reason for this recommendation is of course, that the root account is ...

Back in the early days of Linux, things were exponentially more complicated. The distributions were far less mature and required a particular system account to get things done. That account was root - ...

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