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Should user accounts be created by root or by an admin user?
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Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Hi everyone,
When creating non-admin user accounts, should one do that from an admin account or from the root account? I was having some trouble with settings sticking when I created a non-admin account from an admin account. However, it seems to have gone away when I created a new account from root.
Is there an difference by doing it one way or another?
Thanks...
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2003
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I've been able to do it from the Admin account just fine... actually, I've never even logged into root before. 
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2000
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If you don't need root, don't use root!
I have added/removed about 15 accounts on my OS X box, and have never had an issue with an admin account creating a user account.
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Yeah running as root is usually just a bad idea. I've been able to do 99% of all my stuff without ever creating a root account on any of the computers that I'm responsible for.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Dec 2002
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I've been able to do 100% of all systems management without ever enabling the root account on any of the computers for which I am responsible.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2000
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Unless you are running Unix specific applications, you shouldn't have to touch root. I have had a few things that require it... in the future, there will be no need to become root.
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2003
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If you don't need root, don't use root!
Excellent advice. I once trashed my whole drive and had to reinstall simply from experiencing a crash while logged in to root. I use it much less frequently now.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
Unless you are running Unix specific applications, you shouldn't have to touch root. I have had a few things that require it... in the future, there will be no need to become root.
Well some people in the Unix comunity will always need root 
But if you need to ask a question about using root you generally don't need it. Unless you are in the terminal don't go near it.
I say this because..
1. Root is a very powerful and dangerous beast
2. If you can use the terminal for none trivial tasks (i.e not "top" , "ftp" and other basic stuff) you might need root.
3. If you cannot do what you want to do with root in the terminal and need to login via GUI, it most likely you should not be using root for that task.
There is a new book out called UNIX for OS X I reccommend this book to everybody who is interested in the Unix part of OS X. It's IMHO a good book.
But fort the average mac user you never need to know it even exists.
Cheers Edwin
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