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The security fix
Authored by: jimr on Oct 28, '01 02:35:54AM

If you have applied the security fix to your 10.1 system, the sudo can not open GUI apps with root privileges.

Bummer....

There is a new version of Pseudo that works around this problem.

So you may continue the editing an execution of GUI apps as root user.

Be advised this is not recommended and is considered to be a risk, as you may then do possible damae to your system.

However, using those CLI editors is like brain surgery in the dark.

Well, guess what, I have seen the New BBEdit 6.5 and it has one fantastic feature among many.

The unlock file icon now is fully functional and when you try to save a file with root permissions it prompts you for your password. Even more, until you close the file... you may continue to save changes without re-inputting your password.

This behavior is much more desireable and you can still open bbedit and file by sudo.

So try your scripts with one of these ways instead.




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It gets better...
Authored by: j0nathan on Oct 31, '01 01:39:45PM

BBEdit 6.5 also comes with Unix Tools that when installed allow BBEdit to, amongst other things, be opened via the comand line without going through someof the pain above.



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