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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) If you run macOS High Sierra version 10.13.1, be sure to install today's update. Post 303008450 by wisecracker on Friday 1st of December 2017 01:05:05 PM
Old 12-01-2017
Quote:
Originally Posted by Neo
Actually, even as a non-admin users, you can open a terminal and su to root.

Also, I also run macOS as a non-admin user; but when you install a new upgrade, etc the system will ask for your admin passwd.

Basically, everyone should have a root password on macOS even though they do not run as admin. If all users set a root password, then the update would not have been necessary, according to what I read when I dug into the details. The issue, or so it seems, is that many or many most macOS users seem to rarely work on the console and do all their work via the Mac GUI.
Well I have tried using both sudo -s and su ladmin in non-admin mode and neither give me access...
OSX 10.13.0, not updated this machine yet, the iMac is done.
Code:
Last login: Fri Dec  1 17:42:33 on ttys000
AMIGA:amiga~> sudo -s
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
amiga is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.
AMIGA:amiga~> 
AMIGA:amiga~> su ladmin
Password:
su: Sorry
AMIGA:amiga~> su ladmin
Password:
su: Sorry
AMIGA:amiga~> _

 

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users-admin(1)							   User Commands						    users-admin(1)

NAME
users-admin - Configure local users and groups on the system. SYNOPSIS
users-admin [gnome-std-options] DESCRIPTION
users-admin enables the user to configure the local users and groups on the system. I also provides the ability to assign RBAC profiles to a user. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more informa- tion. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Running the main application. example% users-admin EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Application exited successfully >0 Application exited with failure FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/users-admin Executable for users and groups configuration. /var/spool/setup-tool-backends/data/users Where user template configurations are stored. /var/spool/setup-tool-backends/backup/users Backup directory for files that are modified. /var/run/setup-tool-backends/debug/users Debug logs can be found under here. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-system-tools | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Uncommitted | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform. time-admin(1), shares-admin(1), services-admin(1), network-admin(1), gnome-std-options(5), useradd(1M), usermod(1M), groupadd(1M), group- mod(1M), passwd(4), shadow(4), group(4), attributes(5) NOTES
YP/NIS, NIS+ and LDAP users should be aware that it's possible to have conflict with users configured in here with the result that an error will occur. You should ensure that local user's home accounts are located on local filesystems - e.g. creating a new entry in /home when it's mounted with automount will not work and as such the user may not be created. Written by Darren Kenny, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006. SunOS 5.11 6 Nov 2006 users-admin(1)
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