At 14:27 -0700 10/18/2001, Wilfredo S�nchez wrote: >By default you set up an account which is in the admin group. The >root directory of the filesystem is writeable by group admin, as are >/Applications and /Library and other things.
About which sendmail complained the first time it tried to mail the output of the daily cron job. So I fixed it, without visible ill effect so far (since March 25). I do have to remember to fix it again every time I run one of Apple's installers, which carefully make / group writeable again. So far, I haven't found a need to "enable" root (I root about as a basic part of my job, on other machines). So the only way for me to "be" root--as opposed to getting the power via sudo--is to exploit this really annoying hole. --John -- John Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Port Ludlow, WA, USA
