[X-Unix] App launched by my crontab runs as root if Login Window!

[Eric F Crist]

~flipper wrote:

> Brian Medley wrote:
>
>>  > So, with 'root' disabled. (a misnomer, since root is not enabled in
>>
>>>  the first place, having no password, no shell default, no console
>>>  access, etc)...
>>>
>>>  try using sudo to cd your way into /private/var/root
>>>
>>>  let me know how you do.
>>
>>
>> cd is a shell builtin.  sudo has no way to run this as any user.
>
>
> What's up? Sarcasm detector wasn't working, eh? My point was that with 
> root disabled (in it's standard-shipped Unix default), the presence of 
> 'sudo' is NOT de facto evidence of a root account having been enabled 
> (at any time), as was alluded to in the OP. It's merely an escalation 
> to admin (or a sort of 'super' admin status), in that there are still 
> operations that sudo won't allow.
>
> If a root account is enabled, and I log in as root, I can go anywhere 
> on the computer into 'my' 'root' 'home', into other accounts, etc). 
> But with no root enabled, there are 'walls'...sudo, or no sudo.
>
> brian s
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If I'm not mistaken, root disable, or not, you can still sudo su - and 
go wherever you want to.