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10.3: Make Palm HotSync work in Panther
Authored by: huzzam on Nov 06, '03 06:40:38PM

The exact same thing would have happened if you had typed:

$ sudo chown -R me.mygroup /

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.



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10.3: Make Palm HotSync work in Panther
Authored by: JayBee on Nov 07, '03 11:29:01PM

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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