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As the Chief Technology Officer of HCS Technology Group, Adam is a practical decision maker who oversees the technical direction of the company. In working with executive management, Adam oversees the technical competency of all HCS consultants and helps keep HCS and its consultants on the cutting edge of new and emerging technologies. Adam also leads up the Apple Professional Services division of HCS Technology Group

As an industry consultant since 2002, Adam has specialized in OS X and OS X server deployment, integration, management, and security since version 10.1, and iOS deployment, integration, and management since its’ inception. Adam has worked with home-based clients, small to medium business clients, enterprise clients, and K-8, K-12, and Higher Education clients. Adam heads up the Chicago division of HCS Technology Group, participating in all aspects of business development, operations, and client relations. Adam believes in doing whatever it takes to build personal relationships, communicate effectively, and make a customer happy for the long term. He is proficient in IT consulting engagement, leadership and strategic planning, project management, training, troubleshooting, implementation, and life cycle management.

He became an Apple Certified Trainer in 2003 teaching around 30 classes a year between 2005 and 2011, and currently serves as a mentor trainer who teaches Train-The-Trainer (T3) courses for Apple, Inc. in Cupertino, CA. Adam does a myriad of work for Apple Professional Services for Education, and travels throughout the United States performing these engagements on behalf of Apple, Inc.

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Running an application as root on OS X

Many administrators who use OS X have a good understanding of the command line interface and how to use it, and can often accomplish what they want to doing so. I for one, happen to be one of those. However there are times when using the CLI is just a bit more cumbersome than I'd prefer. A great example is manually editing a file that I don't have write access too. I am alright with vi as a command line text editor, but Text Edit, in plain text mode, is sometimes just more convenient. Unfortunately, while administrators can easily authenticate as, or obtain root access in the CLI, doing so in the GUI without enabling, and logging in as the root user is much more difficult. Thankfully, you can run an application as root by using a quick command in the terminal application.

Open the Terminal application. At the prompt, type the sudo command and then the path to the executable file inside an application's bundle. We'll use TextEdit for this example:

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