Comments on: OS X: Edit a file using TextEdit as root or superuser

By: faraimpresii

faraimpresii — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:46:10 +0000

Hair loss or Alopecia is a problem most of us are facing on a daily basis. Some studies say that men tend to "get" balder faster or that stress contributes to this problem or plainly we're just born with it - carried by genes that is. Nevertheless when it comes to hairloss or caderea parului we have to agree that women suffer the most and spend up a fortune to get rid of this problem. The thing is most products aren't even half good as they are marketed so what's a woman to do ? I think that natural remedies (using eggs and aloe vera) can help your hairloss problem but if people don't start eating and living healthy there's no stop to this issue.

By: alexkeil

alexkeil — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:40:24 +0000

Very useful. I implemented this in my login shell so that I can call it with "textedit"
Steps:

1: open ~/.profile in textedit with terminal command "$ open -t .profile"
2: insert the line "export PATH="$PATH:/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/"
along with a commented (#) note why I was doing this
3: save that text file and close down terminal
4: open a new terminal window, enter "echo $PATH" to ensure that this new entry showed up somewhere in the path.
5: I can now use textedit as a superuser with "sudo textedit"

It saves about a few keystrokes in the long run if you like to edit previously uneditable files (but be careful!). Always save a backup of the file you are editing with the command:
"cp foo.txt foo.backup"

By: Gerry

Gerry — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:19:50 +0000

make sure ur password isn't blank. Mine was and I had the same problem. But once I changed my password to sth else, it works perfectly.

By: Hank Z

Hank Z — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:42:45 +0000

Does this still work under Leopard???????

I enter

sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit /etc/hosts

Then my password and Text Edit does not open the HOSTS file.

Is something Wrong

By: davak

davak — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:25:36 +0000

I get that error sometimes too. It shows up in the terminal after textedit is loaded. It still works fine though.

By: mori

mori — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:14:47 +0000

I get this error trying this hint:

2008-12-02 22:13:54.216 TextEdit[1144:c17] *** CFMessagePort: bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0×44c) 'Permission denied', port = 0×4403, name = 'com.apple.TextEdit.ServiceProvider'
See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.