From: rpatel_at_accelrys.com
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 04:38:07 PDT
Hi,
>I am Admin at all times, never considered this dangerous, should I?
>
>Why would I have to be Root for installation of new software? My Admin
>password seems all I need...
Are you logged in as 'root' or as yourself ?
I think the first user created after initial boot and working through the
setup
wizard is a normal user with admin rights (I think the Win XP wizard does
something
similar - thereby hiding the fact that an 'administrator' user exists)
I think even as yourself with admin rights certain parts of the system are
protected
from you.
When installing things I suspect gui installer packages are wrappers for
sudo to
give you 'psuedo' root access.
You can mess about with the local NetInfo database to enable root Gui
login
which I suspect will let you do nasty things to the system via the Gui
interface
that being a normal user with admin rights wouldn't normally let you do.
Raj.
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