Success. I logged in under my other name, and sage compiled. No idea why, but I'm happy. Thanks for the hand-holding: I learned a bit more about Unix.
Now to explore Sage. --Ferren On Oct 23, 8:46 am, Ferren <ferren.macint...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, distinct signs of progress. The root password remains mysterious; > the login password is under control; and the .sage directory now seems > pretty accessible: > > dispo-82-248-128-135:~ ferrenmacintyre$ cd .sage/ > dispo-82-248-128-135:.sage ferrenmacintyre$ ls -l > total 0 > drwxrwxr-x 2 root admin 68 5 Jun 00:05 db > drwxrwxr-x 5 root admin 170 5 Jun 00:20 gap > drwxrwxr-x@ 14 root admin 476 15 Oct 16:12 ipython > drwxrwxr-x 7 root admin 238 6 Jun 21:56 sage_notebook.sagenb > drwxrwxr-x 9 root admin 306 23 Oct 07:49 temp > > Nonetheless, I get exactly the same response from dragging sage to > Terminal. Should I now try to build sage locally? (Warning: no build > of anything I have yet tried has succeeded. Admittedly, I have tried > only major ventures like Gerris and Ubuntu. 'Unix for Dummies' > throws up its hands and refers me to my systems administrator. Has > anyone written a 'System Administration for Dummies'?) > > On Oct 23, 1:51 am, Michael Welsh <yom...@yomcat.geek.nz> wrote: > > > > > On 23/10/2010, at 12:07 PM, Ferren wrote: > > > > Now, in addition to any Unix-related problems, I may have an > > > idiosyncratic Mac problem. When my Mac guru put Snow Leopard on it > > > (while he was repairing the permissions problem), he set me up with no > > > password for my user account. This appears to be the password that > > > sudo expects--but as of OS X 10.5 (I have 10.6.4), a carriage return > > > is no longer recognized as indicating 'no password', and gets the > > > standard error message. > > > > There is a way of changing the root password, described by Apple at > > >http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1528 > > > but so far no version of this has had any effect. Nor has chmod had > > > any effect. > > > > There is considerable confusion in my mind about passwords, and I > > > haven't experimented with changing my user account password. Half the > > > time I get the impression that this is the same as the root password-- > > > but then why are there different ways of changing the 2? Experience > > > suggests that the most probable result of messing about with passwords > > > is that I will end up trying to get my machine back into the hands of > > > the local guru--who is 50 km away and 500 m higher up the mountain, > > > not on a bus line, and me with a bicycle. So I experiment somewhat > > > reluctantly. Got any expert Snow Leopards around there? > > > There are two different passwords: one, your admin account/sudo password; > > and the other your root (su) password. > > > Your admin password is the one that OS X is after when you type sudo. So > > changing it to something will make sudo work, and leave the root password > > alone. > > > The root password doesn't work with sudo, you need to login as "su" (just > > type that) first. However, sudo is much easier. > > > HTH, > > Michael > > > --http://yomcat.geek.nz -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
