I'm aware of those issues. I'm having at least 3 Terminal windows open 1) normal user w/ bash shell 2) admin user [su admin] & bash shell 3) admin user as root [su admin] & [sudo bash]
Usually, I've much more to do as [root] that just adminstering MP eg changing owners & permissions for dirs & files to _www & _mysql Always having to prefix w/ sudo is a PITA YMMW Den 11.07.2025 kl. 12.55 skrev Chris Jones via macports-users: > >>> Prefix those commands with "sudo" for normal root MacPorts >>> installations. >> >> Well, I'm running under "sudo bash" under my admin account to avoid >> having to prefix every admin task w/ "sudo" > > That is in general dangerous and not to be recommended. > > The better way is to configure your sudoers list to allow your regular > user account to run the port command through sudo without requiring a > password. Its trivial to do and there are plenty examples on the web on > how to do it. e.g. > > <https://askubuntu.com/questions/159007/how-do-i-run-specific-sudo- > commands-without-a-password> > > This is way better than doing everything in a `sudo bash` shell as > *only* that one command will run without requiring a password. Whereas > what you are doing everything you type in that terminal session, good or > bad, will run with sudo privileges. -- Bjarne D Mathiesen Slagelse ; Danmark ; Europa ----------------------------------------------------------------------- denne besked er skrevet i et totalt M$-frit miljø MacPro 2010 5.1 ; OpenCore + macOS 14.7.6 Sonoma 2 x 3,46 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon ; 192 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC RDIMM ATI Radeon RX 590 8 GB
