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Originally posted by LivinFree
Now, MacOSX, as I understand it, pretty much has the user logged on a privelaged user all of the time (maybe it's just in console mode). That puts MacOSX is the same boat as a Windows 98 machine.

This is not entirely true. In most home computer cases, a user with admin privileges is logged on all the time. Now just because the user has admin privileges does not mean they have full System Admin privileges. This just means they are allowed certain privileges to run and alter programs, not the system files itself. Now if a program were to affect a system file or the system folder, it would ask the user for an admin login and password. So in essence, you would know if something were trying to access your system.

Terminal (or Darwin, the Unix core) on the otherhand is a bit different. I am not too entirely familiar with it but I am learning. From what I understand, you do have more access privileges in the Terminal than in OS X. But Unix is a bit more of a powerful operating system so that does not surprise me.

And to straighten something out . . . Mac OS X is built off of a Unix core, which means that OS X is not entirely Unix. Therefore you can attempt to infect your OS X box with a Unix "virus" unless u tried to running Terminal. Nor can you (from my understanding) infect OS X with a "virus" (if you can find one) from Unix, this case the Terminal.

If I am wrong on any of this, someone please point out my error. I am here to learn just as any other. Smilie

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network-admin

network-admin(1)					      General Commands Manual						  network-admin(1)

NAME

       network-admin - Network Administration Tool

SYNOPSIS

       network-admin [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

       network-admin is part of the GNOME system tools, a set of tools to easily access and manage system configuration.

       network-admin allows you to specify the way your system connects to other computers and to the Internet.

OPTIONS

       --display=DISPLAY
	      X display to use

       network-admin also accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options.

AUTHORS

       network-admin was written by Carlos Garnacho Parro <garnacho@tuxerver.net> and others.

       This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       services-admin(1), shares-admin(1), time-admin(1), users-admin(1), gtk-options(7), gnome-options(7)

       The online documentation available through the program's Help menu.

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