[nycbug-talk] OS X wireless sniffers and more. . .

[Bob Ippolito]

On May 11, 2004, at 7:20 PM, G.Rosamond wrote:

>
> On May 11, 2004, at 7:08 PM, Sunny Dubey wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 11 May 2004 07:01 pm, you wrote:
>>
>>>> 777 is never a good idea, I'd be surprised if 660 didn't work for 
>>>> you.
>>>
>>> You'd have to add yourself to the wheel group then.
>>
>> Erm, I think G would know exactly what 660 means one must do ... 
>> hence why I
>> didn't bother with the group issue.
>>
>
> Yes. . ..the first thing i did when i bought my ibook was enable root, 
> then put my login in the wheel group. . .and installed x11. . .of 
> course. . .

Why did you enable root?  What's wrong with sudo?  I find sudo -s to be 
a more than suitable root login replacement.

> This is my first apple or os x hardware for my use, but i have to say, 
> i don't like that things run out of /opt/local/bin. . .blah.

Blame darwinports, that's not Apple's fault.  I'm pretty sure that you 
can configure that location.

-bob