this has been posted in a million places, but here is the million-and-first. To enable root in Mac OS X, open a shell as your normal administratior account, and type

sudo passwd root

enter your adminstrator password, and then enter the password that you want for root. and now you have root.

of course, you don't need root active, as you can just type ...

sudo /what/ever/command/you/want

and it will run as root.

sorry for getting so off-topic, but don't want people to think that Mac OS X is a half-baked unix. It really is a fully-baked unix.

--Sandy

In reply to Re: Perl on Mac OS X ! (and Apache) by blueflashlight
in thread Perl on Mac OS X ! (and Apache) by fpi

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