I can verify that the 4.1.3 agent has also screwed up the permissions
to my /Applications directory.
I will file a bug report with Cisco on this issue. In the meantime
you can do the following as a workaround:
- Open Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility
- Select the partition Mac OS is installed on
- Click the "Repair Disk Permissions" button
Hope that helps,
Eric J. Kenny
Network Analyst
Marist College
3399 North Rd.
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
845.575.3820
On Jan 8, 2008, at 1:05 AM, Cat Hoffman wrote:
Hi all, one of my students emailed me with the following issue. Has
anyone else experienced anything like this? I'm not much of a Mac
person so I'm not sure all of the implications / work arounds, so I
figured I'd email you all for some insight. Thanks!
The message I was sent:
----------------------------------------------
"The new cca is causing problems with installing on OS X. Leopard
is effected the most.
Basically what happens, is the CCA installer changes permissions
for the CCA app, and the Applications folder. The owner get's set
to "_Unknown" with read/write access, group is set to "Unknown",
and others are only allowed read access. This prevents the system
from making any needed changes to the Applications folder.
In Tiger and earlier, this can easily be fixed by manually changing
the owner and group in the get info box, to System(owner) and Admin
(group).
In Leopard however, this cannot be done. The get info box does not
allow the removal _Unknown or Unknown. When adding a new user/
permission the Finder crashes.
I haven't looked into the cca installer enough to see what it
installs, so I don't know any "quick fixes." It should be possible
to fix the permissions via the Terminal, but I don't know the
correct commands yet.
"
------------------------------------------------
Thoughts? Thanks,
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cat Hoffman
Network Infrastructure & Security Engineer
Office of Information Technology
Valparaiso University
1700 Chapel Drive, B13 Kretzmann Hall
Valparaiso, IN, 46383
Phone: (219) 464-6101
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
