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From: Bella Jones on 11 Jun 2005 16:07
Roger Merriman <NEWS(a)wodger.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote:
>
> > Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:

> > > > [.kext install without password]
[...]
> > >
> > > No. Mine's owned by root, which means that any administrator (ie me) is
> > > forced to authenticate.
> > >
> > > Repair your disk permissions.
> >
> > Tis now done - and repaired. But odd because I did that a couple of
> > times yesterday and it must have not worked. So, just one thing about
> > permissions: in Disk Utility, in the left hand bit there's an icon of a
> > HD, saying '74.5 GB ST380011A', and then below it is my own HD icon.
> > Which should you highlight for repairing permissions?
>
> you can repare permistions on eitehr as you could have more than one
> partision on the disk. as you sound like you only have one? then i'd
> guess it makes little odds?

Well, it seems that it does matter. Here I am back in the learning zone!


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From: Bella Jones on 11 Jun 2005 16:07
Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:

> On 11/6/05 10:57, in article 1gxznen.1ha7qdo3q888rN%me9(a)privacy.net, "Bella
> Jones" <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote:
>
> > Tis now done - and repaired. But odd because I did that a couple of
> > times yesterday and it must have not worked. So, just one thing about
>
> Maybe they were OK, and then you subsequently did something that changed
> them to something bogus?

When I did repaired permissions the correct way, I got (among the usual
other stuff) the response below:

User differs on ./System/Library/Extensions, should be 0, owner is 501
Group differs on ./System/Library/Extensions, should be 0, group is 20
Owner and group corrected on ./System/Library/Extensions
Permissions corrected on ./System/Library/Extensions

That fixed it. But I haven't seen that stuff for a while. I think I've
been doing it wrong.

> > permissions: in Disk Utility, in the left hand bit there's an icon of a
> > HD, saying '74.5 GB ST380011A', and then below it is my own HD icon.
> > Which should you highlight for repairing permissions?
>
> The top icon's the physical disk, and then inside that (ie indented) are all
> the partitions on the disk.
>
> I think you need to select the partition and then repair permissions.

Yep. I can't remember why I started selecting the physical disk icon.

> (Though personally I just do "sudo diskutil repairPermissions /" on the
> command-line. Since / indicates a filesystem, that also suggests that you
> need to select the partition icon.)

Thanks for all the info.


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From: Roger Merriman on 12 Jun 2005 17:24
Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote:

> Roger Merriman <NEWS(a)wodger.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > [.kext install without password]
> [...]
> > > >
snips
> > > >
> > > > Repair your disk permissions.
> > >
snips
> >
> > you can repare permistions on eitehr as you could have more than one
> > partision on the disk. as you sound like you only have one? then i'd
> > guess it makes little odds?
>
> Well, it seems that it does matter. Here I am back in the learning zone!

computers are things you never know *all* you can know deap or wide not
both....

roger
From: Noses on 13 Jun 2005 07:43
Watakushi no kioku ga tashika naraba, Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote:
> Sound OK?

No.


Noses.
From: Bella Jones on 13 Jun 2005 14:45
Noses <noses.nospam(a)noses.com> wrote:

> Watakushi no kioku ga tashika naraba, Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote:
> > Sound OK?
>
> No.

All sorted now, thankfully.

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