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10.3: Make Palm HotSync work in Panther
This is a myth, and a limiting and potentially dangerous one at that. There are no inherent problems with logging in as root in terms of system stability or security. The practice of not logging in as root developed as a way to protect systems with multiple administrators: the dangers are that someone will forget that they are logged in as root and accidentally do some damage, or that in an environment where the system is being constantly customized and extended that some program run from root will have unexpected consequences--probably due to a bad relative path--and hose the system. root functionality, however, is vital to system administration. And I don't mean just giving programs an administrator password to install software, I mean really going in once in a while and poking around to make sure everything looks right. On traditional UNIX systems, sudo and su provide this functionality for administrators, but permissions in Aqua don't work in traditional ways, so for a normal user to effectively administer and secure his/her system, he/she needs to occasionally log in as root. And if it is a simple way to handle or avoid permissions issues, why not? It's really no different that using sudo to launch a graphical installer in other Unices, expcept that OS X doesn't really allow users to run programs as other users effectively in the Finder.
10.3: Make Palm HotSync work in Panther
I consider myself to be a knowledgeable UNIX system administrator. I've been doing it for over a decade now, and I've seen a lot of things. I can find my way around in the dark, as it were.
10.3: Make Palm HotSync work in Panther
The exact same thing would have happened if you had typed:
which is what the "anti-root faction" ;) is advocating. The fact is that you wanted to change the ownership of a directory tree owned by root. The only way to do that is by somehow getting root-level access, whether through logging in as root, su'ing to root, or using sudo. They all carry exactly the same risk.
10.3: Make Palm HotSync work in Panther
True-ish, but there's always the handy "please enter your password" breaker to let you think and go "uh-oh" ;) |
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