On linux you can use the su command. A more recent trend has been to not allow su in hopes that this will prevent people from leaving root shells logged in and then doing something which compromoses their system. They are now using sudo; essentially like su but only for the current command line.
I have no idea what OSX uses, but maybe these will point you in the right direction. -- Good luck, Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh de Lioncourt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 4:18 PM Subject: finding /etc My previous experience working with Unix systems long, long ago has helped me a few times, but my memory is a lot sketchier on that than I realized. A decade between uses can do that. I'm trying to do something rather complex and have found instructions on how to do it, but it involves editing a plist that is located in a sub directory of the /etc dir. Now, if memory serves, /etc is something that only a root user should get to. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to get to the plist to edit it, or even how to enable a root user. The main OS/X help seems to have an entry for this if you search for "root," but when I try to bring it up, I just get a see the same page that opens when you first activate help. Assistence welcome. *smile* Josh de Lioncourt [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...my other mail provider is an owl...
