Folks:
A friend works on Macs exclusively and an announcement of an M$ Word
vulnerability went across one of the sites she visits. This engendered a
discussion of his habit of always working with administrative rights ,
and separate root accounts and being able to "su -" in a terminal.
Then I (we) remembered that one must "verify..." and then "repair
permissions" on a regular basis, even when working with administrative
permissions all the time. I recall hearing that that is a common failing
in the recent MacOS's (X.*)
I remember some people on this list speaking of working with or using
Mac's; would anyone care to comment on this situation, i.e. working as
root (that's what it amounts to) and still having permission problems...