On Nov 7, 2005, at 9:39 AM, Daniel wrote:
Interesting. I personally log onto my Tiger (10.4.2) iMac as root, in order to perform system backups.
I just use RsyncX for backups, or Pseudo if I need to run a GUI process as root.
The problems with running things as root in the GUI is that a heck of a lot of files that shouldn't be owned by root can be made so. You end up making a lot of "suid" type holes in your system. (you also do things like disable programs, printing and other stuff.) Also, root exists as a log-innable account, which is just one more security issue.
OS X ain't a fancy Xwindows kit on top of Unix, and treating it like Linux or Solaris isn't necessarily a good thing.
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