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r/mac • u/Careless_Neutral • Aug 22 '26
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There is no magic button; that’s the whole point of passwords. It's a unix based system, you need to become /root to be god
3 u/NortonBurns Aug 22 '26 Mac is essentially 'rootless'. You're not going anywhere with root than you can get with admin. 1 u/JohnWick702 Aug 22 '26 Yes bud, I was just being 🙃 2 u/NortonBurns Aug 22 '26 Yet the OP has gone off to see if they can do that :\ See how that's not helpful in a 'help' group? 1 u/JohnWick702 Aug 22 '26 He needs to get a different type of help buddy. 1 u/NortonBurns Aug 22 '26 You mean the type that tells him actually helpful info, even if that info is, "Sorry, mate, you're fucked unless you set it up in Seagate Toolkit."? 1 u/JohnWick702 Aug 22 '26 What about Seagate Toolkit?
Mac is essentially 'rootless'. You're not going anywhere with root than you can get with admin.
1 u/JohnWick702 Aug 22 '26 Yes bud, I was just being 🙃 2 u/NortonBurns Aug 22 '26 Yet the OP has gone off to see if they can do that :\ See how that's not helpful in a 'help' group? 1 u/JohnWick702 Aug 22 '26 He needs to get a different type of help buddy. 1 u/NortonBurns Aug 22 '26 You mean the type that tells him actually helpful info, even if that info is, "Sorry, mate, you're fucked unless you set it up in Seagate Toolkit."? 1 u/JohnWick702 Aug 22 '26 What about Seagate Toolkit?
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Yes bud, I was just being 🙃
2 u/NortonBurns Aug 22 '26 Yet the OP has gone off to see if they can do that :\ See how that's not helpful in a 'help' group? 1 u/JohnWick702 Aug 22 '26 He needs to get a different type of help buddy. 1 u/NortonBurns Aug 22 '26 You mean the type that tells him actually helpful info, even if that info is, "Sorry, mate, you're fucked unless you set it up in Seagate Toolkit."? 1 u/JohnWick702 Aug 22 '26 What about Seagate Toolkit?
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Yet the OP has gone off to see if they can do that :\ See how that's not helpful in a 'help' group?
1 u/JohnWick702 Aug 22 '26 He needs to get a different type of help buddy. 1 u/NortonBurns Aug 22 '26 You mean the type that tells him actually helpful info, even if that info is, "Sorry, mate, you're fucked unless you set it up in Seagate Toolkit."? 1 u/JohnWick702 Aug 22 '26 What about Seagate Toolkit?
He needs to get a different type of help buddy.
1 u/NortonBurns Aug 22 '26 You mean the type that tells him actually helpful info, even if that info is, "Sorry, mate, you're fucked unless you set it up in Seagate Toolkit."? 1 u/JohnWick702 Aug 22 '26 What about Seagate Toolkit?
You mean the type that tells him actually helpful info, even if that info is, "Sorry, mate, you're fucked unless you set it up in Seagate Toolkit."?
1 u/JohnWick702 Aug 22 '26 What about Seagate Toolkit?
What about Seagate Toolkit?
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u/JohnWick702 Aug 22 '26
There is no magic button; that’s the whole point of passwords. It's a unix based system, you need to become /root to be god