Im trying to run a program in Leopard and when i try to enable certain features, im told i need admin or root access, how do i enable access just for this program?
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Running program as root?
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IIRC - You should be able to do that by running it from the Terminal and prepending "sudo" to application's name (e.g. "sudo Firefox")
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thanks but that didnt work, it said
Code:
sudo xnmap
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/xnmap", line 66, in excepthook
import gtk
ImportError: No module named gtk
Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/xnmap", line 158, in <module>
app.run()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/zenmapGUI/App.py", line 99, in run
self.__run_gui()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/zenmapGUI/App.py", line 109, in __run_gui
import gtk
ImportError: No module named gtkRather than trying to use the X-11 version, have you tried any of the more native front-ends listed here?:
http://www.macupdate.com/search.php?keywords=nmap&starget=google
http://www.macupdate.com/search.php?keywords=nmap&starget=google
You are missing a Python module that the application needs to run. Namely the GTK+ module. You can either download and install it yourself or use a different application.
if you don't know how to enable root, you probably shouldn't be ... LOL
nore should you be using nmap
--- to many hacker movies my friend ... LOL
i'm just teasing.
I have this working in 10.4 but if i recall I had to install X11 and to the whole nmap/zenmap install right in the root user account.
SOOO
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071025100950309
use that link to enable root, then log out of your account and login to the root user
username - root
password -- whatever you decide
then try installing it... best
http://www.nmap.com has a version that should install no problem -- but again .. that's me on 10.4 not 10.5
nore should you be using nmap
--- to many hacker movies my friend ... LOLi'm just teasing.
I have this working in 10.4 but if i recall I had to install X11 and to the whole nmap/zenmap install right in the root user account.
SOOO
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071025100950309
use that link to enable root, then log out of your account and login to the root user
username - root
password -- whatever you decide
then try installing it... best
http://www.nmap.com has a version that should install no problem -- but again .. that's me on 10.4 not 10.5
if you don't know how to enable root, you probably shouldn't be ... LOL
nore should you be using nmap
i'm just teasing.
I have this working in 10.4 but if i recall I had to install X11 and to the whole nmap/zenmap install right in the root user account.
SOOO
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071025100950309
use that link to enable root, then log out of your account and login to the root user
username - root
password -- whatever you decide
then try installing it... best
http://www.nmap.com has a version that should install no problem -- but again .. that's me on 10.4 not 10.5
lol, i do use command line most of the time, and use zenmap, but xnmap is just so much faster....i had a root account at one time...i used to use that one..but with great power comes great responsibility.
really?
isn't zenmap just the gui front end for what nmap is doing? I thought it would be dependent on the speed of the back end nmap scan?
tell me more about this xnmap
zenmap and xnmap are GUI frontends for nmap, but when i open xnmap its based on cocoa i think so it just opens, and zenmaps takes about 3 minutes because it relies on th x11 window system. Zenmap also takes more system resources. They both scan in the same time.
oh ... lol ... I X11 is barely noticeable when it opens on my computer
that and I only ever run it terminal, Network Utility, and Netinfo manager <-- and maybe preview if I have a PDF open with the information I need running on it.
but if you like xnmap ... that's cool