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The method describe for "setting" the root password via the NetInfo db is pretty cool :-) However, I would recommend AGAINST logging in to OSX as the user "root" the user "root" is the real root (top level/highest privs ) user under OSX, the "Administrator" password used in the GUI tools...

Just a side note, sudo is a LOT different to the 'su' command. su will ask for the root password, and will give you uncontrolled access to the root account to do as you please. sudo on the other hand has, if properly used, very fine grain 'root' access, allowing any user listed in the...

I took the time to play and get NFS mounts working under OSX, it took a bit.. but it works well. I couldn't however get the -fstab option to automountd to work appropriatly, however.. You don't need to. creat a file, say /etc/nfs.mounts, inside it place things like so: /home rw...

If your refering to OSX workstation, then there is pretty much no point in security since the user will have physical access to the machine. Unless you're removing the machine from the users access, and making it a server, it's pretty pointless to worry about it. *Shrug* Still, what...

I would recommed pretty much any Unix/BSD book from O'Reilly, they have been usefull to me for years. For anyone wanting to find more details on some of the well known Unix tools, e.g. sed/awk/grep etc you can get small O'Reilly's that go into great detail. Also, since it's Unix, there...