On Mar 27, 2013, at 9:05 PM, Wayne Stewart wrote:
Giving herself access shouldn't be a security issue.
It's a huge security hole changing the ownership of everything to any
admin ~user. This is the equivalent of enabling root user login and
always logging in as root user.
While the admin ~user is logged-in (on a Mac with all ownerships
changed to admin ~user), anything can be installed anywhere without
any notification to anyone. It opens your Mac to almost anything by
eliminating all notification or need for password authentication to
change literally anything.
Luckily the fix is easy enough, simply running Disk Utility>Repair
Permissions. It may take a while with 100,000+ files needing repair.
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