Sockets broken on Macs?
Robert Withers
reefedjib at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 21 02:20:32 UTC 2006
I forgot all about sudo, so thanks for the reminders. Is it
possible to run a program with sudo and still launch it from an
icon? I suppose I really should buy a book on how to use the Mac...
On Sep 20, 2006, at 6:31 PM, John M McIntosh wrote:
> On a mac, being the administrator doesn't mean you are root
> automatically, a small security measure. Unlike *cough* other
> operating systems where root/admin is a theoretical concept, with
> fuzzy implementation completely side-stepped by all users on the
> machine...
>
> Lastly if you dig about in the os-x unix roots you'll find sudo so
> you can set a squeak process to run as super user to get access to
> ports < 1024 and the user does not have to be admin. However this
> is not a good solution you might consider some more research to see
> how to avoid running squeak as root.
>
> On 20-Sep-06, at 6:10 PM, brad fowlow wrote:
>
>>
>> You'd have to sudo the Squeak process in order bind low-numbered
>> ports.
>>
>> (Being an administrator means you can sudo,
>> but normal processes aren't run as super-user unless you ask.)
>>
>>
>> On Sep 20, 2006, at 5:10 PM, Robert Withers wrote:
>>
>>> I don't particularly know why it couldn't run at a lower port
>>> as I am an administrator.
>>
>>
>
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