On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Chris Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Timothy Grant wrote: > >> While command lines can be made to lie, it concerns me that it looks >> like you're using and Administrator account to do all this work. >> Administrators have far to much power and can do far too much damage >> far too quickly. > > very true. However, OS-X be default does not allow anyone to log in as root. > An "Administrator" is someone that is allowed to use sudo to do > administrative tasks, so he's probably safe. > > Do be careful with sudo though! > > -Chris
Wow Chris, I've been using this PowerBook for nigh-unto four years now, vast quantities of that time at the command prompt and I didn't know that (I thought they were synonymous). Thank you for teaching me something new. -- Stand Fast, tjg. [Timothy Grant] _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
