Jesse Kline wrote: > > this is similar to the situation in mac osx, where pretty much nobody > > logs in as root from my experience despite it having the exact same issues. > > That wasn't the impression that I got > http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/06/0348213&mode=thread&tid=179
<getting off topic a bit> I just got an ibook, and by default, and for the root account, login is disabled, and the first user created is setup to be an admin, which means they have full sudo access (All). When an gui app requires root, a dialog box appears asking for your password. So anybody using osx, would have to explicitly enable logins on the root account, when the need really isnt there. I dont know how long this has been the case, but I havent found any need to enable the root account. Dave
