Running an application with root (or admin) privilages

Question

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.

Answer 1

Edit the sudoers file and add an entry:

sudo visudo

joshk ALL=NOPASSWD: /path/to/apache2

Answer 2

Do you need Apache on port 80?

If this is the only part that requires administrative permissions, it might be easiest (and safer) to just configure another port.