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

[Brian Medley]

On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 07:34:26PM -0400, ~flipper 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.

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