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Should I be worried?
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1778922" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Csmac, I think what you did was different. You created a user named "root" that you gave either standard or admin privileges to. Hence, it shows up on the boot login screen. The root user the bug is about is the internal, very powerful, root user, also called "super user," that has even more access than an admin account. Basically, root (the internal one) can do ANYTHING to the system, for ANY user, at ANY time. And that root user is rarely invoked, even by the Apple techs. Here is some information on the root user: <a href="http://www.linfo.org/root.html" target="_blank">http://www.linfo.org/root.html</a></p><p></p><p>For most of us, when we need to invoke root privileges for something, we use the terminal command sudo, which invokes root privileges for that one command and then ends.You can open terminal and enter "man sudo" for more information on that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1778922, member: 396914"] Csmac, I think what you did was different. You created a user named "root" that you gave either standard or admin privileges to. Hence, it shows up on the boot login screen. The root user the bug is about is the internal, very powerful, root user, also called "super user," that has even more access than an admin account. Basically, root (the internal one) can do ANYTHING to the system, for ANY user, at ANY time. And that root user is rarely invoked, even by the Apple techs. Here is some information on the root user: [url]http://www.linfo.org/root.html[/url] For most of us, when we need to invoke root privileges for something, we use the terminal command sudo, which invokes root privileges for that one command and then ends.You can open terminal and enter "man sudo" for more information on that. [/QUOTE]
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