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Re: FSCopyObjectAsync: useless and crippled
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Re: FSCopyObjectAsync: useless and crippled


  • Subject: Re: FSCopyObjectAsync: useless and crippled
  • From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 18:45:02 +0200

Hamish,

On 16.5.2005, at 11:54, Hamish Allan wrote:
Are you arguing that there should be no way for any user's privileges to be elevated, short of logging back in again as root?!

Rather, as admin. That aside, *exactly*.

Yes, but sudo mv and sudo cp work exactly the way we want them to, and our apps should too.

Sudo by default cannot be used from a non-admin user account at all. Which is The Right Thing.


The problem is that users are becoming more and more accustomed to typing in their admin password at the drop of a hat.

Agreed.

Personally I would be happier if there were support in the operating system for a dialog that couldn't be mimicked

How on earth would you do that?

Administrators are users too, you know! Not all of us log in as root ;)

No, they are *NOT*! To use an admin account for a normal work is a security flaw like hell.


If an admin does a plain work on a Mac, he should make a non-admin account for that, and use it. *NEVER EVER* you should log in as admin unless what you want to do is administration.
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Ondra Čada
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