On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Paul McNett <[email protected]> wrote: > The way to grant selective administration rights is via /etc/sudoers. They'd > make > your daughter a member of the "students" group, and then grant specific > administration rights to "students". Then, your daughter could open a > Terminal and > sudo -s, and gain the admin. permissions allowed.
Hmmmm -- I am not sure the school wants to teach linux commands to students (or for that matter running around in there at all). > You know, by default, Macs let the main user sudo in for full root > privileges. Have > you tried that? No -- I wondered. I will look for a resource that tells me how to run disk utilities from the command line. At least *her* computer will work better... Thanks Ken _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAFyV=LnQd2hyOmPhuk0YCr7p+wXrbQvb=guz-kz-9g2y3kg...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
