Jeff, I am glad you thought this was on topic.
On 10/11/07, Jeff Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oh yes, the much vaunted Mac ease of use. 2 examples from this past week: > > 1 - I wanted to change the short name of the root admin, so that all of my > Macs had the same one. The consultant I used to deploy these used several > different short (and long) names, bless them. I wanted to change it as I > have an application that scans the network and creates an up-to-date > hardware inventory, which it does effortlessly for my PCs. > > *40* steps to do this. 40. If you don't make things worse doing it. I can't even figure out what you are talking about. You can certainly have more than one user with the privileges you need. You shouldn't be using root to do the hardware inventory - that is a security violation. You should be creating a user just for this purpose with just the privileges needed. I can see you actually logging in as Administrator on hundreds of Windows machines - all with the same password. Yow! That is scary. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
