For you Mac gurus….
Examining a case involving several Mac computers using BlackLight R2.
I was noticing that the system Administrator has only one asterisk on the password.
Is there an easily explainable reason that the Mac only shows one asterisks on the admin account?
Or, is the answer That's Just the Way it Is?
It seems to be the same on every computer.
Example
User Account Type Mac User
User Name larrysmith
User ID 501
Path Users/larrysmith
Password ******** <—— 8 asterisks
The System Admin account appears like this
User Name root
Full Name System Administrator
User ID 0
Path /var/root
Password * <——- 1 asterisk
I think your best bet is to contact their support team (https://
They're very responsive
Possibly the root user is not enabled?
I'm looking at a Macbook Pro at the moment with a disabled root user, I'm going to run blacklight across it shortly so I'll let you know if the result is duplicated.
The root account is not enabled. I have verified this by running the following commands on a lab mac here.
First
In terminal check all users info
dscl . -readall /Users
Then look at the amount of "*" for each user, as my root account was not enabled - it showed just one "*" for the password as it was not enabled and therefore, no password set.
To test this, I enabled the root account in terminal
dsenableroot
This allowed me to login as the system admin and then set root password and enable the root account.
Running the first command again (dscl . -readall /Users) I found the root account had more "*****" in place reflecting the size of the password set.
To disable root account again in terminal simply use this command
dsenableroot -d
great, thanks..
I will test this..