On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 05:33:24PM +0000, Jay K wrote: > sudo won't work for me -- root password is *. > I'll have to try it with ssh r...@localhost, which will work.
sudo prompts you for the password to your user account, not the root account. Also, you can setup sudo to not require a password for whatever commands it needs to run when building a port.
