Thanks everyone, turns out all I needed to do was enable the root user.

-----Original Message-----
From: Hamish Allan [mailto:hamish@gmail.com]
Sent: Tue 7/8/2008 11:04 AM
To: Wan, Nathan (CIV)
Cc: Quinn; launchd-dev@lists.macosforge.org
Subject: Re: [launchd-dev] noob question you all can answer

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Wan, Nathan (CIV) <nlwan@nps.edu> wrote:

> nothing prints after "Password:" no matter when command I type after sudo.
> For example, "sudo ls" has no output after "Password:", neither does "sudo
> id"  How do I fix this?

I'm late to this discussion, but presumably you're typing in your
password when prompted, and pressing return?

Hamish