site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com On Aug 19, 2005, at 22:28 , Herbert wrote: HTH. Regards, Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large Institute for General Semantics -------- When LuteFisk is outlawed, Only outlaws will have LuteFisk -------- _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... No, I'm not root, it's an admin account. I had hoped you didn't need to be root to do it. Ah, nope...the admin account only gives you the opportunity to become root, to do things like this. To be clear: when using an admin account: - GUI (Aqua) apps will give you the option to do admin things, and this is generally indicated by the presence of the lock. - command line apps can be executed as root, but only if you use 'sudo' (or 'su'). There is (generally) no connection between the admin state of GUI apps and the command line. In addition, note that when you have been authenticated in a GUI app, the actual operations are carried out not by the app, but by another process (a daemon or faceless app). This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com