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Admin password not working for sudo?

I’ve been trying to run this command in the terminal:

However after being prompted to type in my password (which I believe it needs to be the admin’s password) and after typing it, it just says: «Sorry, try again».

I am logged onto the only user account this Mac has, which has admin privileges. I’ve tried repairing disk permissions as well as reinstalling the OS (Mojave), but with no success.

Not sure what to do anymore! Can someone help me out with this one?

UDPATE #1

When I run $ sudo -l I get this:

And if I try and run visudo or sudo -u diogopires visudo , I get:

UDPATE #2

Furthermore, to check group membership, I got:

UDPATE #3

Upon running set -x , I ran and got:

And afterwards, I ran and got:

2 Answers 2

For whatever reason you seem to have the targetpw option set. From man sudoers :

So you can do things like sudo -u diogopires ls by entering your own password, but you can’t run sudo -u diogopires visudo because this would run visudo as diogopires (and not as root as it should).

• Boot into single user mode by pressing Cmd-S on startup
• Run mount -uw /
• Use visudo (without sudo ) to remove the option
• Type Ctrl-D or run reboot to reboot

Idea #1 — Using your password

The entire purpose of sudo is to grant users or groups of users access to elevated functions without having to reveal the Administrator’s credentials. Therefore the password you’ll want to use when prompted by the sudo command is in fact your user’s password.

Additionally you can use the switch -l to sudo to see what specific permissions your user ID has been granted.

The above is stating that the user joeuser has all permissions, (ALL) ALL , on the system.

Idea #2 — Lacking sudo permissions

If you’re finding that your password is correct, then it’s likely that your account simply doesn’t have an entry in Sudo’s configuration files giving the user any permissions to use. To confirm this you can try running the command visudo to view Sudo’s configuration file:

NOTE: visudo is merely opening the file /etc/sudoers in vi in a protected manner so that no 2 users can stomp on it at the same time.

Idea #3 — Group membership

Typically with user’s being granted access to sudo they’ll be added to a special UNIX group called admin . You can confirm if your account is a member of this group like so:

This group is special since it’s typically what shows up in the system’s /etc/sudoers file granting users admin access via sudo via this line:

Idea #4 — TextExpander

I was able to find threads where other people were reporting that TextExpander was auto capitalizing the first word in a sentence, which was causing the first letter of their password to be capitalized when they would type it. You can disable TextExpander to see if this is the cause of your password issues with sudo .

Idea #5 — Corrupt account or password

There’s a slight chance that your user’s password may have become corrupt in some capacity which is rendering sudo unable to use it. To help eliminate this as a possible cause you can try resetting/changing your user’s password. To do so access the Systems Preferences and then open up Users & Groups and select your user and click the Change Password button.

Additionally you may find some success with attempting to follow some of the steps in this guide titled: How-To Fix Corrupt User Accounts in macOS if you suspect your macOS user account has become corrupt.

NOTE: I’d save this last suggestion as something to try once you’ve completely eliminated everything else.

Idea #6 — Create another account

To eliminate any issues with the system itself, you may want to try creating another macOS user account and grant this user sudo access as well. Once you’ve created this account, attempt to use sudo -l and verify that it functions. If it does not, then your issue is likely with the system either being mis-configured or perhaps some files/libraries that are critical to sudo have become corrupt.

Idea #7 — An issue with certain commands

I noticed someone asking you in comments about how you were able to run the command sudo -l and provide your password, but in subsequent commands such as sudo ls it failed.

This got me to thinking that perhaps your issue has something to do with an alias, shell function, or shell script that’s getting picked up when you run sudo ls .

To investigate this idea a bit more you can do the following:

This will enable more verbose output from commands. The set -x is what enables this. The set +x at the end will disable this.

In between we’ll run the sudo -l and the sudo ls commands so we can see what commands are actually getting run when these execute.

Your output should look the same, if you see something other than sudo ls then you may have an alias or shell function that’s inhibiting your ability to run sudo ls .

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If you get a personalization error when reinstalling macOS on your Mac with Apple M1 chip

While reinstalling, you may get a message that an error occurred while preparing the update.

If you erased your Mac with Apple M1 chip, you might be unable to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery. A message might say «An error occurred while preparing the update. Failed to personalize the software update. Please try again.» Use either of these solutions to reinstall macOS.

Use Apple Configurator

If you have the following items, you can resolve the issue by reviving or restoring the firmware of your Mac:

• Another Mac with macOS Catalina 10.15.6 or later and the latest Apple Configurator app, available free of charge from the App Store.
• A USB-C to USB-C cable or USB-A to USB-C cable to connect the computers. The cable must support both power and data. Thunderbolt 3 cables aren’t supported.

If you don’t have these items, follow the steps in the next section instead.

Or erase your Mac and reinstall

Use Recovery Assistant to erase your Mac, then reinstall macOS. Before you begin, make sure that you have enough time to complete all steps.

Erase using Recovery Assistant

1. Turn on your Mac and continue to press and hold the power button until you see the startup options window. Select Options, then click Continue.
   
2. When you’re asked to select a user you know the password for, select the user, click Next, then enter their administrator password.
3. When you see the utilities window, choose Utilities > Terminal from the menu bar.
   
4. Type resetpassword in Terminal, then press Return.
5. Click the Reset Password window to bring it to the front, then choose Recovery Assistant > Erase Mac from the menu bar.
6. Click Erase Mac in the window that opens, then click Erase Mac again to confirm. When done, your Mac restarts automatically.
7. Choose your language when prompted during startup.
8. If you see an alert that the version of macOS on the selected disk needs to be reinstalled, click macOS Utilities.
9. Your Mac will begin activating, which requires an internet connection. When your Mac is activated, click Exit to Recovery Utilities.
10. Perform steps 3 through 9 once more, then continue to the next section, below.

Then use one of these methods to reinstall macOS

After erasing your Mac as described above, use one of these three methods to reinstall macOS.

Use the Reinstall macOS Big Sur utility

If your Mac was using macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 or later before you erased it, select Reinstall macOS Big Sur in the utilities window, then follow the onscreen instructions. If you’re not sure, use one of the other methods instead.

Or use a bootable installer

If you have another Mac and a suitable external flash drive or other storage device that you don’t mind erasing, you can create and use a bootable installer for macOS Big Sur.

Or use Terminal to reinstall

1. Select Safari in the utilities window in macOS Recovery, then click Continue.
2. Open the article you’re reading now by entering this web address in the Safari search field:
   https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211983
3. Select this block of text and copy it to the clipboard:
4. Bring Recovery to the front by clicking outside of the Safari window.
5. Choose Utilities > Terminal from the menu bar.
6. Paste the block of text you copied in the previous step, then press Return.
7. Your Mac now begins downloading macOS Big Sur. When done, type this command and press Return:
   ./Contents/MacOS/InstallAssistant_springboard
8. The macOS Big Sur installer opens. Follow the onscreen instructions to reinstall macOS.

If you need help or these instructions aren’t successful, please contact Apple Support.

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Why can’t I run `su`? (and how should I do?)

Whenever I try to issue su I get this:

Needless to say, I’m entering the correct admin password which does work with sudo . What I want is not having to enter sudo each time.

7 Answers 7

In MacOS X, the root user is disabled by default, therefore su will not work. As others have stated, it’s best to use sudo .

If you must enable the root user, see Apple’s technote: Enabling and using the «root» user in Mac OS X.

You have two options. The first is to use sudo -s — this will give you superuser access, but you will still remain ‘yourself’ (so to speak), so things like

will still be your home directory. Alternatively, you can use sudo su , which gives you a shell as the actual root user of your Mac.

Modern solution: sudo -u

To run as another use, use sudo -u .

For example, to run a text-editor such as nano:

…and enter your Mac admin user password when prompted. At this juncture, it is your Mac admin user who is invoking sudo , not the someuser user so you do not enter the someuser password.

• sudo means to run something using superuser privileges.
• -u means “run a specified command as this specified user”.
• someuser should be replaced with your desired user name.

To simulate an initial login as a particular user, including running their startup scripts, use -I .

This runs the nano app as the user someuser but only after having run the startup scripts for that user.

If we opt to not specify a command or app to run, we get an interactive shell running as that user.

Old-school: sudo su someuser

Another approach uses the su command in combination with the sudo . The su command means “switch user”.

Or, to include running the user’s startup scripts, add the hyphen.

root user

The root user in Unix-related operating systems have absolute power to do anything.

Apple has chosen to disable the root account in macOS, to avoid security vulnerability exploits and to protect you from shooting yourself in the foot. Apple created the idea of the Administrator user accounts who have many powers, more powers than a Standard user account, but not absolute power like root has. See this Apple Support note for discussion.

If need be, you can enable the root user in macOS and then switch to that user. This is strongly discouraged. I would go down this path only as a desperate last resort.

For discussion of this within the context of the postgres user running the Postgres database system on macOS, see this Question on the sister site, DBA Stack Exchange.

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