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Reboot a hung system with Spotlight and Terminal
Authored by: Westside guy on Jan 02, '09 11:04:24AM

By default if you're not running as an admin, sudo won't work because you won't be in /etc/sudoers. However you can add yourself using visudo, and from that point on you'll have sudo access from your non-admin account - even if you toggle your account's admin status, the system seems to keep track of the changes to /etc/sudoers that were made manually.

But yeah, "sudo /sbin/reboot" is very handy when your computer won't otherwise respond...



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