#45737: dbus +no_root deleted my root account on MacOSX 10.5.8 -------------------------+------------------------ Reporter: newchief@… | Owner: mcalhoun@… Type: defect | Status: assigned Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.3.2 Resolution: | Keywords: Port: dbus | -------------------------+------------------------ Comment (by newchief@…): Yeah, reinstall is now completed and most of the ports I need are also built so there's nothing left from previous system. This time I've built dbus without +no_root and I can still do 'sudo'. From what I remember: Immediately after dbus +no_root failed to install (with the message that I shouldn't have started dbus installation with +no_root), I wanted to check something in ports directory. As usual, before going to /opt/local/var/macports (in a new shell started in a new window), I typed 'sudo -s'. I was asked for password (this was before I deleted "Message Bus (root)" user), typed it and... got regular user shell (with '$' prompt, not '#' that I expected). Although whoami said it is 'root', I coudln't do anything that requires 'root' assistance, e.g. I couldn't do 'mkdir /bin/something'. The rest now is a history. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/45737#comment:5> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X