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Is there a way to set an Application Shortcut in the Keyboard Preference Pane via Terminal?
I'd like to have a bootstrap for my custom keyboard shortcuts to use on multiple machines...
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Mac asking for password for some files when deleting [duplicate]
This happens not for all files. When I move or delete some of the files on my external drive Finder will ask for password. Is it due to permission set on these files ? Can I use something like Sudo ...
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allow sudo only at a specific time of day
Is it possible to configure sudo so that it only works at a specific time of day, say, from 9AM to 10AM?
In Linux, this can be done by editing /etc/security/time.conf, but I don't know if this is ...
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Terminal returns not found for most commands Mac OSX
I'm really new to Mac OSX and UNIX based systems. I wanted to run a few Windows games on my Mac Mini so I started installing Wine and MacPorts.
Having done so, I typed in sudo port install wine and ...
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sudo defaults read NSGlobalDomain AppleLanguages gives error
I know
defaults read NSGlobalDomain AppleLanguages
gives result correctly. But doing
sudo defaults read NSGlobalDomain AppleLanguages
gives
The domain/default pair of ...
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After typing sudo I can no longer autocomplete commands by pressing Tab
In a Terminal, if I type beginning of any command by pressing tab I can see the rest of that command.
However this feature does not work with any words I type after sudo.
How can I complete command ...
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How do I give a user sudo permissions?
On my computer I have two accounts: geoff and admin. I want to do gacutil.... Doing it in account geoff (where I need it to be done) I get the message:
gac directories could not be created, possibly ...
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1answer
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whoami is not who I am!
I login into my own computer as username geoff. When I open a terminal I have as prompt:
Geoffs-MacBook-Air:~ org1$
The org1 is my work username! I have no login of that username for this computer ...
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1answer
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How do System Preferences remain unlocked?
To make certain modifications to system preferences, you first need to unlock the preference pane. Some of these changes are done on a system level and the command-line equivalent would need to be ...
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Can sudo's annoying message be removed from Mountain Lion 10.8.0?
After the upgrade to 10.8.0, whenever I do a sudo, I always get this message:
dyld: DYLD_ environment variables being ignored because main executable (/usr/bin/sudo) is setuid or setgid
I have ...
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4answers
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How do I reset/recover my superuser password without the boot disk?
I lost the superuser password for my iMac and I don't have the boot disk. I already tried the second answer on this page, but every time I type su from the command prompt, it still asks for a ...
