What is system root?

what is system root?

It depends on whether you mean the 'root' user account, also know as the "Super User". Logins to this account are disabled, but the account exists, as many of the privileged background processes are owned by the root account. NOTE: This is NOT the same as an "Admin" user.
Or do you mean the file system 'root' directory, which on a Unix system is represented by /. In the Finder, it is generally the "Devices" item with your boot disk name, such as "Macintosh HD", unless you renamed it.

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I've considered using Keychain Access for the first real time, as I'm tired of using the same unsafe password everywhere. At work we had security issue and I started collecting and changing each password, and logging them on a sheet securely stored in a safe. It's not that important anyway.
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First I fired up Keychain Access and found 3 keychains in the list, being: login, System and System Roots. I understand that login is tied with my login password and will unlock each time I log in.
However, I have no clue about the 2 other keychains, and wonder if they even need to be here. As I'm planning a nice clean start, I was wondered if I could just erase those? I thought that if something needed my password, I'd simply feed it, since I'm aware of all the existing password on this mac; it has only be my own.
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After reviewing system certficates and evaluating them, even though they're trusted, they appear to be foreign and suspicious to me. not seeing any association with aspecific app., I would like to delete them from MacBookAir. How? Thanks

This is additional information to my original query. I hope this helps for those who may have experienced the same issue and found a solution other than to blindly follow the sheep/Apple. I love Apple products as I'm sure you do, but that doesn't mean we have to "settle" for certificates we know nothing about.
After opening Keychain Access and viewing the System Roots Certificates, I find one entitled, “China internet information Center EV Certificates Root”. It evaluates as “Generic (Certificate chain validation only).
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Those certificates are issued by Apple peroidically with Software Updates, but I read a way to update them more frequently.
Hit your Keychain Access Preferences,
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I have many unrecognized certificates in my System Roots area and in Certificates. I searched the web to see how to delete them. The 'delete' option under 'File' is grayed out.
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jem consulting wrote:
I have many unrecognized certificates in my System Roots area and in Certificates. I searched the web to see how to delete them. The 'delete' option under 'File' is grayed out.
Is there something I'm missing?
Unrecognized by you or a certificate authority? It's rarely a good idea to be deleting Certificates in any case.
Yes, the lock in the upper right hand corner, but unless you have established a root password, you won't be able to unlock it. Your not supposed to mess with things in System Roots.
Many of these certificates have slightly unusual names i.e. DoD CLASS 3 Root CA
Thawte Personal Freemail (at least 15 from Thawte Personal *
There is nothing unusual about those names. I only have 6 Thawte Personal *'s.
Also when I initially opened Keychain it crashed and produced what would be equiv to a stack dump..
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The \System Root\System32\drivers\NatMotion.sys device could not locate the entry point IoSetDeviceInterfaceState in driver ntoskernal.exe

After installing version 5.1.1 of the Flexmotion driver, and installing f5 update, I got the following message after rebooting the system: The \System Root\System32\drivers\NatMotion.sys device could not locate the entry point IoSetDeviceInterfaceState in driver ntoskernal.exe. OS is Win NT. I see device in MAX , but can not initialise it, and cannot make firmware update.
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tomk wrote:And a bit offtopic, but 5GB for /boot?! As you can see, you've only used 24MB, and even if you have multiple kernels it's unlikely to be more that 100MB, so you can gain a good bit of space there.
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and http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/9909 … hamsod.png on my home folder
Last edited by Rhamsody (2011-04-11 15:29:41)

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