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A simple way to launch GUI apps as root
This seems to work great for applications, so for editing text files and plist files and such it will be very helpful. However, is there any way to open a path as root using Finder? Using the open command is the only way I can see, but as that post mentioned, sudo open doesn't actually open the path as root. I have tried specifying the entire path of Finder (sudo -b /System/Library/.../Finder.app/Contents/.../Finder) followed by the path of the folder I want to open as root. My dock flashes briefly, as if Finder were relaunched, but that's all I see. When I look at what applications are running, I have another Finder running. The only way I can see how this would work is to do a killall on Finder, and then open Finder as root. Would this essentially give me root access on folders? I could then killall Finder when I'm done and launch it as my normal user. Any idea if this is what I would need to do, or is there any way to just open a single folder as root???
root Finder
I think there was a hint for this since 10.1: |
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