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Create a 'one-time-use' root-enabled GUI Finder
Authored by: hypert on Nov 02, '04 12:34:47PM
Along similar lines, I have an alias called "root" in my environment that simply runs
sudo tcsh
Then, I'm effectively root for the time being, even though the root account is "disabled".

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Create a 'one-time-use' root-enabled GUI Finder
Authored by: fracai on Nov 02, '04 01:17:00PM
an alternative would be
sudo su
I'm not sure if either of these is more proper or beneficial

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Or ...
Authored by: googoo on Nov 03, '04 10:00:14AM
Or you could just use

sudo -s

This runs the default shell as root. (The default shell is bash under 10.3 and tcsh under earlier versions unless you have changed it.)

-Mark

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