[launchd-dev] noob question you all can answer

[Shawn Erickson]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Shawn Erickson <shawnce at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Don Montalvo <donmontalvo at mac.com> wrote:
>> Shawn Erickson <shawnce at 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