[Tfug] Mac OSX permission problem...

[Jim March]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Zack Williams <zdwzdw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, I'm doing chown/chmod with sudo.  Doesn't help.
>
> Is that user account an "Administrator" on the computer (In OS X, that
> puts the user in the "wheel" group, so it can sudo properly)?
>
> Have you tried this from another admin account on the same computer?
>
>> "man chown" and "man chmod" list a different function for the -R
>> switch than the Linux "recursive" usage.  I forget what it was, but
>> basically I could see no way of doing recursive re-permissions unless
>> I did some very funky bash stuff involving maybe find piped to
>> chown/chmod?
>
> It means the same thing - it looks like they wrote their man page as a
> redefinition of the language in the POSIX standard...
>
>> I read something on Apple's own site on the ACLs and tried a command
>> to blow them away.  That same Apple page said they could be rebuilt
>> through a tool on the original install CD (which I have).  But
>> literally the only thing the original install CD can do is a
>> re-install of the OS, which didn't help.
>
> What page would that be?
>
> Also, if you move then files then blow away the user account, then
> move the files to /Users/$NAME and recreate the user account with
> $NAME as the shortname, the system will ask if you want to reuse the
> files.   (make a backup!)

I just tried:

sudo chmod -R g+w *

No joy.  The user has admin rights.  What the hell is going on here?

Jim