So someone asked (on AppleInsider) why they couldn't telnet into MacOS X as root, and how they could set it up to do it. Well, I couldn't let that slide so I registered, logged on, and begged them not to do it. And then someone replied:
This obsession with security is going to do in OSX if it continues. I certainly hope people buying Mac's at Sears don't have to worry about root and so on. I run DP4 as root. It's less of a hassle with permissions for moving files around between the classic side and unix side.
Oh dear. Ooooh dear.
So someone asked (on AppleInsider) why they couldn't telnet into MacOS X as root, and how they could set it up to do it. Well, I couldn't let that slide so I registered, logged on, and begged them not to do it. And then someone replied:
This obsession with security is going to do in OSX if it continues. I certainly hope people buying Mac's at Sears don't have to worry about root and so on. I run DP4 as root. It's less of a hassle with permissions for moving files around between the classic side and unix side.
Oh dear. Ooooh dear.