Subject: Re: Why no root login
From: Steven Karel (karelsf@brandeis.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 09 2000 - 14:50:59 EST
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Brian Reid wrote:
> I use netatalk in schools. We let students have accounts. Students
> graduate. I've always wanted root login so that I can make a CD Rom with
> student files on them without needing to know student passwords and without
> logging out and in hundreds of times. There are deep technical reasons
> related to our computing environment why we cannot use group permissions to
> do this.
>
You don't need root access to netatalk to create a CD. If you can get root
access to a shell, use mkhybrid and cdrecord to make your CDs.
For all the reasons cited by others, I'd have to agree that allowing root
to have access via Appleshare is probably a bad idea.
steven
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