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10.3: Using Root to make Palm HotSync work in Panther
Authored by: gdouglas on Nov 04, '03 07:29:23PM

Personally I have never had to log in as root. Of course, I haven't upgraded to Panther yet either, and I am holding off until other good folks have blazed a path for me that is completely "root free".

However it is interesting to me that Apple specifically refers to logging in as root to manually back up all users in their article at
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106941

Also Apple recently posted this article on enabling root in Panther and, per the article, has included those instructions in the Panther help file:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=125136

I would love to know what Apple thinks of using root to force installations.

Although I am resisting it, I guess eventually all us Mac-using people are all going to wind up knowing our way around Unix. And we will probably learn to tiptoe very carefully over any "roots" in our path.

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G. Douglas



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