[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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