Folks: A friend works on Macs exclusively and an announcement of an M$ Word vulnerability went across one of the sites she visits. This engendered a discussion of his habit of always working with administrative rights , and separate root accounts and being able to "su -" in a terminal. Then I (we) remembered that one must "verify..." and then "repair permissions" on a regular basis, even when working with administrative permissions all the time. I recall hearing that that is a common failing in the recent MacOS's (X.*) I remember some people on this list speaking of working with or using Mac's; would anyone care to comment on this situation, i.e. working as root (that's what it amounts to) and still having permission problems...