Posted on October 18, 2009 at 5:54 pm

How to run Finder as root

If you’ve ever used linux, then you probably really missed two things when you started using Mac OSX, the apt-get command (automatically retrieves software) and the sudo nautilus command (opens file browser ,what finder is, as root. Well, it may not be as clean looking as linux, but you cam run a session of Finder as root by opening terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and typing:

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder

and hit ENTER (or return if you run PPC)

This IS CASE-SENSITIVE, one capitalization off, and it will not work, I’d recommend you copy and paste.

One Response to “How to run Finder as root”

  1. mac daddy on May 10th, 2011 at 11:43 pm says:

    I tried this on osx 10.5. It works, but one caveat: finder is a special application that is not designed to be run multiple times, so the finder windows opened as the non-root user do not interact with the windows opened as root.

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