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Why do people insist on having root enabled??
Yet another hint that requires root to be enabled when, as has been pointed out by many others, sudo is what you want to be using!
Quit yer Whining
You know, preaching to people on why not to use root is really pointless. If they want to use root, they will. It's really none of your concern.
Quit yer Whining
You don't like using root? Fine. Don't. Screaming about it
whenever someone else mentions using it doesn't help.
Actually, it helped a lot; I didn't really think about some of the points he brought up. Inasmuch as this is a HINTS website, you know, a place where some of us come to learn things that we previously didn't know or hadn't figured out on our own about OS X (including the CLI/ UNIX'ish underpinnings of it, I think that the original poster's comments were infact very helpful. Yours, on the otherhand, was pure flamebait.
Quit yer Whining
Not to mention the fact that sudo as a command can't properly be tailored to a particular system unless someone on the system has access to /etc/sudoers for editing -- ie, is root.
Quit yer Whining
Mac OS X is configured so that all administrators are placed in the admin (80) group, and the admin group is given sudo privileges in /etc/sudoers. Therefore, administrators can edit /etc/sudoers by "sudo visudo", and can create more groups and assign individual non-admin users or groups whatever sudo privileges they merit (none, by default). If an administrator removes the admin group's permission to edit the config file, root has to be enabled, but that's why you only give admin access to people you trust! |
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