Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

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  1. neilh

    Cute mostly, not sure yet since its downstairs where it isn’t really set up to be used – I’m running ssh from upstairs but have just found that ‘make install’ doesn’t work ‘cos I don’t have the right permissions on this account….so I’m gonna have to tackle the UI when I next go down for a cuppa. Worth having though, just to find out more about it….

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        • hirez

          On a ‘normal’ BSD box, adding your uid to group wheel allows you to su. On the other hand, this is a Mac. It’ll be different.

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          • hirez

            It probably won’t work that way. And indeed will break things if you do try it. (And if you can su root, you don’t need to do it)

            In theory (ie from what I vaguely remember about sudo) there’s a ‘sudoers’ file which controls who can su to what and when.

            I dunno. I just do raw unix, not this funny version with all the corners rounded off and cuckoo clocks installed.

          • neilh

            looks like everything tracks back to lookupd, whatever that is, an authority giver by looks of things….its not high priority, so I’m gonna leave it for the moment, I’ll come back to it later.

    • pjc50

      When I tried OSX it didn’t have a root account, but the first user I setup+the password I gave on install gave me “sudo bash” access. Note that this is different from the normal su system!

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