On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 11:18:22AM -0500, Eric Gorr wrote: > .... > The problem I am having is that the install need to create a folder > inside the 'etc' folder. Unfortunately, that folder is not owned by > me (I am the admin for my machine and logged in as such). > > I cannot figure out how to alter the ownership.
If you're logged into an account with 'admin' access, you can (in a terminal window) run the command 'sudo su -' which will log you in as root (it will ask for your password). There is also a way to create a root account that can be logged into directly, but there's not much reason to. You can also use sudo to run individual commands as root without logging in. As others have said, don't change the permissions on /etc; you don't need to if you're root, and /etc is a symlink in MacOS X anyway. -James _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
