Re: I got one for you guys

[Travis Siegel]

Using the terminal, and root access, you can do anything to any  
user's account.  And, for some silly reason, by default there is no  
password on the root account.  This gets set when you set a password  
for system wide access.
The su commmand will allow you to become root on your box.  Do not  
use the su command unless you *have* to.  It's easy to wipe out an  
entire drive if you type the wrong command.  Trust me, root access is  
dangerous, even if you do know what you're doing.  I've accidentally  
killed users accounts before by typing the wrong command when I  
thought I was somewhere else in the file system.  Needless to say,  
it's not exactly the best feeling to report to someone that there was  
an accident, and they're gone from the system.  Of course regular  
backups will help with this, but often, users don't backup, and  
loosing things they had on a system doesn't make them very happy.