[Pythonmac-SIG] Yet another problem with path

[Chris Barker]

Timothy Grant wrote:

> While command lines can be made to lie, it concerns me that it looks
> like you're using and Administrator account to do all this work.
> Administrators have far to much power and can do far too much damage
> far too quickly.

very true. However, OS-X be default does not allow anyone to log in as 
root. An "Administrator" is someone that is allowed to use sudo to do 
administrative tasks, so he's probably safe.

Do be careful with sudo though!

-Chris



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