By ET

If you don’t know what the title means, just ignore this post.� :-p

I found that on a Mac, I can’t really “su root” as I� often do on Linux.� Whenever I change the root password, I can “su root”, but the next time when I start “Terminal”, the root password is not recognized.� The trick lies in creating a super user account, then “sudo” each time.

For example, to move some files to a directory that the current user does not have right to write.� I can do:

sudo mv somefiles* /home/root/dir

Good thing is that the only difference is to add sudo in the beginning.

�This cartoon from xkcd says it all.

By ET This entry was posted on Thursday, September 27th, 2007 at 3:24 pm and is filed under General, Information, Mac Tips, Random Thoughts, Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.