On 24 Jan 07, at 17:20, K F (lists) wrote: > http://www.petitiononline.com/31337OSX/petition.html
The petition reads, in part: > In efforts to minimize the apparently unnecessary dialog boxes that > ask for permission to go from gid=admin to uid=root we are hereby > petitioning Apple to remove any further use of dialog boxes when > making the transition from gid=0 to uid=0. Since the admin group is > ALREADY root why can't you just stop asking us for authorization? Do your research next time. gid=admin isn't root: > powerbook% id > uid=1000(me) gid=1000(me) groups=1000(me), 81(appserveradm), 79 > (appserverusr), 80(admin) ... it's just an ordinary group with sudo, write privileges to some special folders, and some extra SecurityAgent magic in /etc/ authorization. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
