On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 05:33:24PM +0000, Jay K wrote:
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> sudo won't work for me -- root password is *.
> I'll have to try it with ssh root@localhost, which will work.

sudo prompts you for the password to your user account, not the root
account.  Also, you can setup sudo to not require a password for
whatever commands it needs to run when building a port.