[X-Unix] App launched by my crontab runs as root if Login Window!
~flipper
lord.flipper at gmail.com
Fri Jun 3 16:34:26 PDT 2005
John Harrold wrote:
>I'm not sure what you mean by enabled. I don't think you can disable the
>'root' user on a unix machine and have it work. Every time you run sudo it
>executes commands as root. This would not be possible if the 'root' user
>was disabled.
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.
brian s
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