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Create a 'one-time-use' root-enabled GUI Finder
Authored by: gshenaut on Nov 02, '04 01:46:03PM

Since this hint involves using a shell command (in a very unsafe way, it seems to me), why not just do whatever you want to do via a shell command? For example, "sudo cp -Rp /sw /what/ever". It's faster, easier, and safer.

Greg Shenaut



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Create a 'one-time-use' root-enabled GUI Finder
Authored by: jiclark on Nov 02, '04 02:49:49PM

See, that's what's so amazing about you Unix gurus... You can't imagine (or remember) what it's like to not be able to do things from the CL without even thinking about it! ;-}

"...faster, easier and safer"

For you maybe! To those of us for whom shell commands don't just flow out of our fingertips, it may be safer, but as for faster and easier... I'm afraid not!

I only wish it were so...



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Create a 'one-time-use' root-enabled GUI Finder
Authored by: gmachen on Nov 02, '04 04:33:03PM

Easier yet: use Pseudo (uncrippled shareware) ...

<http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/pseudo.html>

... to make a Pseudo "Launch Document" pointing to the Finder ...

/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app

... and thereafter all one needs do is double-click it to launch a second Finder as root.



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Create a 'one-time-use' root-enabled GUI Finder
Authored by: gshenaut on Nov 03, '04 03:27:56PM

Well, obviously for many it is easier to drag a directory than it is to issue a shell command. But that isn't the comparison I was making. The original hint involved a much more complicated and subtle use of the shell to start up the finder.

But it is true that facility with the shell is a useful skill.

Greg Shenaut



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