[lug] Mac unix root account and /etc/hosts

[Jim Buzbee]

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 dio2002 at indra.com wrote:

> any mac users out there?
> 
> 
> what is the mac account that gets you root access?

You want to use "sudo" from an account with "admin" privs, i.e.:

# sudo vi /etc/hosts

As to whether editing the host file is a good thing, that's another story.


Jim


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