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10.3: Make Palm HotSync work in Panther
Authored by: foobar104 on Nov 04, '03 10:00:33AM
If a certain fix seems to work when logging in as root, then I'm going to publish it.

That's not the greatest selection criteria in the world, I think. The question ought to be not whether a given root-related hint works or not. It should be whether it's necessary or not. Because as soon as you tell somebody to enable the root account on his computer, you're giving him the gun and the bullets. When you tell him to log in as root, you're pointing the gun at his foot and putting his finger on the trigger. One wrong twitch and it's all over.

Hints involving logging in as the root user should, in my unsolicited opinion, only be published when there is no other option. And I, personally, have never encountered a situation where there was no other option but to log in as root. Especially in this case; I installed Panther, then Palm Desktop (from the Palm website; whichever version is currently available), then the Palm iSync conduit, and had absolutely no problems. It works perfectly. So it's obvious that root access is not required.

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10.3: Make Palm HotSync work in Panther
Authored by: danelgran on Nov 04, '03 12:04:53PM

Hey!

Its my Mac!!! If I want to log in as root....thats MY problem. If I break my Mac, its my fault. Nobody's twisting my arm to actually use the hint.

Bottom line -- I'd rather know about the hint than not....its up to me if Im gonna use it.





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10.3: Make Palm HotSync work in Panther
Authored by: huzzam on Nov 06, '03 06:13:18PM
Hints involving logging in as the root user should, in my unsolicited opinion, only be published when there is no other option. And I, personally, have never encountered a situation where there was no other option but to log in as root. Especially in this case; I installed Panther, then Palm Desktop (from the Palm website; whichever version is currently available), then the Palm iSync conduit, and had absolutely no problems. It works perfectly. So it's obvious that root access is not required.

For you. I installed Panther (clean install), downloaded the Palm installer, and it won't install, complaining that "access was denied" (how War Games!). Sounds a lot like a permissions problem to me. Just because you didn't have a problem doesn't mean that no one is having it. And probably until Palm fixes their installer, the only way I'll be able to install is by installing as root.

Besides, there's no security difference between logging in as root to install something, and typing in your administrator password when an installer asks for it. Both mechanisms grant the installer root-level access. Do you never type your administrator password?



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