Dear Folk,
I've found the 'native' sudo to be insufficient. My solution is a complete
compile and install right over the Apple version. The important setting in the
configure line is --with-exempt=[group] to get a fully useful sudo without the
necessity of using 'su.' You get to do it all as yourself if you are a member of
[group]. It has worked through three OS upgrades.
http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/sudo.html
I currently use Sudo version 1.7.4p4.
Scott Webster wrote:
Is your user an administrator? If not, you need to su to an
administrator user before using sudo.
Scott
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
On Apr 17, 2011, at 16:27, earachefl wrote:
I'm trying to install ImageMagick on 10.5 , using "$magick> sudo port install
ImageMagick" and get error message: "Error: Insufficient privileges to write
to MacPorts install prefix." I've run sudo port selfupdate already. What
should I try? Thanks!
Curious. You'd think with sudo you'd be getting root privileges which should be
able to do *anything*.
Have you set macportsuser to something (other than root) in macports.conf?
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