I was in the macosxhints chat channel, and someone asked about launching a OS X app as root without logging out, and without using Pseudo (which is a handy app, BTW). We came up with a fairly simple procedure for doing in the Terminal what Pseudo does normally on its own:
sudo path/to/application/Contents/MacOS/app_name &For example:
sudo /Applications/TextEdit/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit &That will launch the TextEdit program as root, and the ampersand backgrounds the process so you can get your Terminal back. You will be prompted for your login password (as is standard sudo behavior), and then the app will launch with full root privileges.
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