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10.6: Enable root user on Snow Leopard
You can also do 'sudo sh', or 'sudo bash' or 'sudo zsh', etc, etc. This is why the whole argument about not enabling root is silly. If you have unlimited sudo, which all admin users have by default on OS X, you have for all practical purposes already enabled the root account. I can guarantee you that any hacker that you need to worry about already knows this and won't even be slightly inconvenienced by the root account not being enabled. Just about the only thing you can't do is get a GUI login as root. The single advantage of forcing admin users to use the sudo command is that it makes it a little bit harder to make stupid mistakes as root, but if you're the type of person that is likely to make a stupid mistake (either through inexperience or carelessness) you are still going to do it eventually.
10.6: Enable root user on Snow Leopard
Well said, I second this. sudo should be written as "pseudo" as in "pseudo-security" :)
10.6: Enable root user on Snow Leopard
Glad to see such a refreshing (and correct!) summary. |
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