On Jul 24, 2007, at 21:51 , William Stein wrote:
> > On 7/24/07, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> On Jul 24, 2007, at 19:09 , William Stein wrote: >>> On 7/24/07, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] >>> What is disconcerting? I.e., what alternative would you like? >> >> The Mac OS X user has been (or should have been :-}) indoctrinated in >> the idea that 'root' is a Unix-ism that is useful in the hands of >> experts, but that should not be trifled with. The system ships with >> the user "root" known, but with no "account" supporting a login by >> "root". >> >> After a brief look at the source, it's still not clear. Are these >> accounts distinct from the "/etc/passwd" accounts of Unix fame? In >> particular, is 'root' the Unix 'root'? > > To be clear, there is absolutely no relationship between user accounts > on OS X and the SAGE notebook. The SAGE notebook logins and crypto > hashed passwords are stored in the nb.sobj in the sage_notebook > folder. > > Would calling the account "admin" instead of "root" be helpful? > Basically an account with such privileges should probably exist, > and it needs to be called something. I feel fairly strongly that there is sufficient history with the term 'root' that we should avoid it. I felt really uncomfortable continuing when asked to create a new password for the 'root' account. That is a heavy-weight concept. 'Admin' or 'NBAdmin' or something on that order would be fine. I certainly agree that such an account and the concept in general should be there. Justin -- They said it couldn't be done but sometimes it doesn't work out that way. - Casey Stengel -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-forum URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
