> What are the results of the commands "ls -ld /" and "id" (type them > each, without quotes, in a Terminal or xterm window). > > Have you ever deleted anything from your /Library/Receipts folder? > > dan >
First, I confirm I have run Repair Disk Permissions, to no avail. As for the outpiut of the above commands, see below. Note that I have created a non-privileged user, "marciano", who cannot "sudo", and a user with administrator rights, "theboss", who can. Last login: Sun Jun 19 09:52:29 on ttyp1 Welcome to Darwin! MargiePB:~ marciano$ ls -ld / drwxrwxr-t 30 root admin 1122 Jun 17 16:22 / MargiePB:~ marciano$ su theboss Password: MargiePB:/Users/marciano theboss$ ls -ld / drwxrwxr-t 30 root admin 1122 Jun 17 16:22 / MargiePB:/Users/marciano theboss$ id uid=502(theboss) gid=502(theboss) groups=502(theboss), 81(appserveradm), 79(appserverusr), 80 (admin) MargiePB:/Users/marciano theboss$ exit exit MargiePB:~ marciano$ id uid=501(marciano) gid=501(marciano) groups=501(marciano) MargiePB:~ marciano$ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
