I'm studying PHP and MySQL. One of the directions for installing the MySQL stuff begins with opening Terminal, and entering sudo su. When I enter that it asks for my password. When I give it my password, it says sorry. Then any time after that, (I think it only goes back if I log out) it doesn't even ask for my password, it just comes back with su: Sorry. What could be going wrong?
Apple iMac Core Duo 2.0GHz 20 inch 2GB RAM, iPod nano 4th gen.
Don't use sudo su but only "sudo". You don't want to go into super user mode like in Linux, MacOS is slightly different, you want to act like one as administrator. You might need to use "sudo" in from of every commando though.
Don't use sudo su but only "sudo". You don't want to go into super user mode like in Linux, MacOS is slightly different, you want to act like one as administrator. You might need to use "sudo" in from of every commando though.
Use this instead: "sudo -s". You have to be an administrator for it to work. Better yet, download a MySQL installer package and avoid the shell entirely.
I'm in an administrator account. I have MAMP (http://mamp.info). It says this is to add these programs to the system path.
I'm using this book: http://www.sitepoint.com/books/phpmysql4/
Here's what happens when I try "sudo su": (it looks like the password area is blank, but I did type my password. It must just show up blank so you can't see the password)
Here's what happens when I try "sudo" and then the code provided by the book.
I may just forget about this and use my own web server at http://www.danielshamburger.com/ (already has PHP and MySQL and all that stuff) and make a /dev password protected directory.
Thanks!
The basic syntax for sudo as shown in that second picture is,
sudo command
where command is the command you want to execute. It doesn't look like that what you were doing. You typed sudo without a command which just causes sudo to display its help info.
sudo su - sorry. What's wrong?
