Filed under: UNIX / BSD, Security
Sudos and sudon'ts
I find that I'm visiting RixStep on a regular basis these days. Today I stumbled across this post about using root privileges and thought I'd share it with you. If you want to learn more about using Mac admin privileges, this might not be the best post to start. If you already have some familiarity with the command line and with Unix, you can learn more about what su does, how to authenticate yourself, and understand why this affects security in a handy ten-point check list. It's a little verbose, but there's a lot of good meat in the article.
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Nick said 4:56PM on 3-21-2007
Hmm ... it's just a shame that the site in question oscillates between providing informative articles and tedious drama-queen grandstanding. The site's owner seems determined to undermine his own credibility. Currently, he's running no fewer than two articles puffing George Ou's fatuous nonsense and repeating his slanders against TUAW's David Chartier.
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Jacob Rus said 7:55AM on 3-22-2007
God, please don't read RixStep. That guy is a totally arrogant asshole who loves to attack independent Mac software developers, seemingly for no reason at all. He has a nice good/bad/ugly scale, and a lot of high-quality apps end up in the wrong category.
He's also completely mentally unstable, and most of his posts seem to be long meaningless rants about how Apple has gone wrong.
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Jacob said 8:01AM on 3-22-2007
For example, here he gives Quicksilver 4 burnt toasts:
http://rixstep.com/4/2/qs,00.shtml
Other apps he puts in the "very ugly" category include:
OmniWeb, BBEdit, Journaler, TextWrangler, Super Get Info, Interarchy, Mailsmith, and pretty much all of those little hidden settings modifier apps.
Please, don't read the trolls.
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