On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Shawn Erickson <shawnce@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Don Montalvo <donmontalvo@mac.com> wrote:
Shawn Erickson <shawnce@gmail.com> wrote:
You should never need to enable the root account on Mac OS X.
At the sake of starting another UNIX holy war......why not?
Note I very clearly said "you should never need to enable" not "you should never enable" however one could sensibly argue for the later.
...and my intended point relevant to this email thread is that enabling root is overkill for the simple task that the OP was trying to do (sudo chown ...). It isn't clear why he couldn't get sudo to work but he didn't give us enough information about how his user was configured, etc. to help him. -Shawn