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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) root/admin authorization and PackageMaker Post 48339 by LivinFree on Wednesday 3rd of March 2004 11:26:51 PM

03-04-2004

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I don't know for certain if the below is the only difference, nor am I sure how it relates to package installation, but here's my crack at it:

In OSX, root is the same as almost all other Unix systems. Administrator is almost as good. In OSX, an Administrator is in the admin group, which allows them to run "sudo", to run commands as root.

Now, knowing the little I do know about OSX, I do know root is not enabled by default. Administrator is. Depending on the administrator scripts, you may be able to require admin privelages, and sudo your commands.

Either way, they'll be prompted for either an admin, or the root, login. My gut instinct would tell me to go with administration requirements, not root.

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shares-admin

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

NAME

       shares-admin - Shared Folders Administration Tool

SYNOPSIS

       shares-admin [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

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

       shares-admin allows you to share folders to other computers in your network or in the internet.

OPTIONS

       shares-admin accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options.

AUTHORS

       shares-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), network-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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