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Originally posted by LivinFree
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.
very excellent point, indeed!
nice catch!
(though, that begs the musical question, if root being enabled or not could cause an installation to go belly up, how does Apple manage updates?
i'd guess from the melodious query that root is not a requirement for nearly every install...)