[Pythonmac-SIG] Silly MacOS X question...

[TattooMabonzoK.]

Yo,

You may want to check Pseudo which allows you to run GUI app as 
Root from you normal (non-root) user account.

<http://softrak.stepwise.com/display?pkg=1554&os=20>

HTH

= tmk =

On Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 11:56 AM, Jack Jansen wrote:

>>> Just installed MacOS X and trying to change file permissions 
>>> within the
>>> folder where Apache CGI files are, *but* my own machine won't let me
>>> (that
>>> folder is owned by 'root').
>>>
>>> How does one change files that are owned by root?
>>
>> Yoy have to provide a password for root, it comes blank.  The easiest
>> way to do this is:
>> sudo passwd
>
> This is not a good idea for Mac OS X, Apple advices against it. 
> The root
> account is disabled, the idea being that if you need to do 
> something as root
> you use sudo (which accepts any administrator password) for that 
> command only,
> and you never log in as root, or use su.
>
> There's also a suido (I think it's called) somewhere out on the 
> net that
> allows you to run gui programs as root.
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