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Password problems changing users in Terminal
I'd like to switch between the default user in Terminal and the user 'postgres', created when I installed PostgreSQL 9.2.
If I type su postgres, I'm prompted for a password that I don't know and ...
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How to avoid the GUI password prompt when using `osascript`?
I’d like to use the osascript shell command to run some AppleScript, but I’d rather avoid the GUI password prompt. Instead, I’d prefer to run the script as sudo from the command-line, so no GUI ...
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How do I reset/recover my superuser password without the boot disk?
I lost the superuser password for my iMac and I don't have the boot disk. I already tried the second answer on this page, but every time I type su from the command prompt, it still asks for a ...
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sudo password incorrect all of a sudden
sudo ls
All of a sudden it says password incorrect. I am 100% sure of my password. I don't know what happened. Hacked ?
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Lion Terminal remembers sudo password after quitting
I've been using Lion since its release, and I noticed today, for the first time, that Terminal did not prompt me for a password when I typed in a sudo command, if I close and reopen Terminal within ...
