Running program as root?

[macbooker15]

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?

 

[TEG]

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")

TEG

 

[macbooker15]

thanks but that didnt work, it said

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 gtk

 

[larkost]

Rather 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

 

[Cromulent]

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.

 

[revenuee]

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

www.nmap.com has a version that should install no problem -- but again .. that's me on 10.4 not 10.5

 

[macbooker15]

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

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.

 

[revenuee]

xnmap is just so much faster....

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

 

[macbooker15]

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.

 

[revenuee]

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