sudo gacutil permissions

Question

I am trying to use gacutil on my mac. When I do I get the error:

gac directories could not be created, possibly permission issues.

So how do I get the permission, considering this is my computer?! There are two users on the computer, geoff and admin. I tried:

sudo gacutil -i mysql.data.dll

then gave the admin's password, but I got

Sorry, try again.

which I did to no avail. So how can I get this to work?

Answer 1

It turns out that the problem was nothing to do with gacutil or sudo, but somehow my username did not match my account name. After posting on another part of the exchange I found the problem and its answer: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/76068/whoami-is-not-who-i-am

Answer 2

sudo requires the password of the current user, not the admin password.