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Mac OS X install, what is having superuser privileges?

murray · Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:08 pm

Installation instructions for Mac OS X give two different procedures, one of which "requires superuser privileges".

I have an administrator account and can use 'sudo'. Is that all that's meant?

Re: Mac OS X install, what is having superuser privileges?

hannes · Wed Feb 29, 2012 11:10 am

Yes, you have superuser priviliges after

Code:

sudo su -