Actually, you can do chmod with sudo as long as you have admin permissions on your Mac. You just enter your own user password in the password prompt after sudo and the command. This is no problem if you are using /opt/local. If you already have Macports installed and have done some upgrading and installing of ports with it, you have already used sudo successfully. If it had been installed from source, it should have been able to run successfully without changing permissions but you still should be able to do this with the screen you were sent provided it is working correctly. Once you are done installing both brltty and screen, you will be able to run both brltty and screen without using sudo or root permissions of any kind.
May I ask what you hav done so far. If we make sure this is done in a systematic order it will be much easier to help you figure out what is or isn't working, why or why not, and what to do next. What is your setup? What Mac version are you running? Have you successfully been able to do the compile and install of brltty and are you doing it from github? Are you using Macports, in which case, you already are using sudo? I apologize if I have missed a post but it isn't clear to me where you are in this process so far. I would get brltty installed first if you haven't already. You won't be able to run it yet but then you can work on screen. On Sep 1, 2017, at 11:30 PM, John Covici <[email protected]> wrote: Well, I can only execute if I am root, not even as the regular admin user. I put it in /opt/local/bin and that is where other port installs are. On Fri, 01 Sep 2017 23:36:31 -0400, Dave Mielke wrote: > > [quoted lines by John Covici on 2017/09/01 at 23:20 -0400] > >> That version of screen that you attached does not work, I get >> permission denied, even though I changed the owner to root:wheel . > > Did you use chmod to make it executable? > > -- > Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | http://Mielke.cc/ > Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ > EMail: [email protected] | Canada K2A 1H7 | The Bible is the very Word of God. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [email protected] _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.com/mailman/listinfo/brltty _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.com/mailman/listinfo/brltty
