in reply to Perl on Mac OS X ! (and Apache)

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

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Re: Re: Perl on Mac OS X ! (and Apache)
by fpi (Monk) on Mar 27, 2001 at 01:02 UTC
    It's not off-topic - I knew someone here would know a better way. Thanks, blueflashlight. I'm surprised I never came across this info anywhere else.Probably because the mac discussion groups are cluttered with topics in which I have no remote interest.

    You're right, it is really a fully-baked unix, and my satisfaction with OS X just increased significantly. Especially after my first install, which was so sluggish I was ready to write off Apple forever....the only thing differently I did was to format the partition as "Unix" (sluggish)instead of "Mac extended" (works fine)....

    Now my dilemma is which OS/computer to choose as my primary development machine - the Mac or the Linux...

    My apologies to jepri above. I don't work with Perl/Tk normally, so I'll leave it for someone else to test.
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