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Running an application with root (or admin) privilages

I want to run MAMP Pro as root (or admin) under Mac OS X. MAMP starts up an Apache server on port 80 and because it's a low port, it I have to type my password in every time I start it up or shut it down.

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Guest [Entry]

"Edit the sudoers file and add an entry:

sudo visudo

joshk ALL=NOPASSWD: /path/to/apache2"