root password in a .py script

[Kirk Strauser]

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At 2004-03-12T19:46:53Z, Bart Nessux <bart_nessux at hotmail.com> writes:

> 1. To administer the machine.

To my knowledge, there is absolutely nothing that can be done by root that
cannot be done via an appropriately-configured sudo.  I administer a raft of
servers and literally *never* type the root password unless I'm logging in
at a console in single-user mode.

> 2. All they have to do is click a check-box to disable ssh in OSX.

Gotcha.  Wouldn't something along the lines of "don't do this, or else we
won't be able to help you when you need it, and it just makes more work for
everyone involved" go a long way?

> 3. I didn't know about chpass.

I mentioned it above already, but to re-iterate: you really need to read up
on 'sudo' as well.  It's the solution you're looking for.

> 4. We're informal. Admins are noramlly only called when the user has
> *really* messed something up. We put out their fires. When we try to stop
> them from creating fires, we become over-bearing and
> controlling... classic admin/user relationship.

Understood.
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Kirk Strauser
The Strauser Group
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