[Pythonmac-SIG] Yet another problem with path

[Timothy Grant]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Chris Barker <Chris.Barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> 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

Wow Chris, I've been using this PowerBook for nigh-unto four years
now, vast quantities of that time at the command prompt and I didn't
know that (I thought they were synonymous).

Thank you for teaching me something new.

-- 
Stand Fast,
tjg.  [Timothy Grant]