Terminal Help

[Fishnut]

I'm using iMac OSX and although I've been a mac user for years I've never edited anything in Terminal nor have I heard of it until 2 days ago. My problem is I am able to open a Terminal window using sudo su as instructed but when prompted for a password it will not allow my password to be typed in. Any ideas? Thanks

 

[Zerozal]

Local echo is disabled when typing a password in Terminal - i.e., Terminal does not display any typed characters. This is a security feature and is normal. Just type your password as usual when prompted and hit return.

 

[satcomer]

Sudo usually means 'Super User Do'. Think of it as a temporary 'Root' capability.

One web site IMHO you should bookmark is Mac OS X Hints.com.

 

[mfram]

Unless you know what you are doing, I would not use 'sudo su' in the Terminal. At that point, you are in a fully priveleged shell with all safties removed. You can easily render your Mac un-bootable with no way to undo your operations short of re-installing.