On jeudi, oct 31, 2002, at 13:36 Europe/Paris, Andreas Guettinger wrote:
It would be interesting to know if the people with permission problems had passwd installed (or gnome) under fink. I had a lot of problems because of this, and had to reinstall 10.2.OTOH, I have had passwd installed since a long time, have done many dangerous things (with the exception of running the fink binary installer twice, at least before yesterday ;-) ), and have run the disk utility checks a couple of times. Never had any problem with this. Never had to reinstall any system.
After installing passwd, (I did not delete any users from my system), sometimes later I did a file permission check and a disc check. All my permissions in the get info -> file permissions menus turned to something in a japanese font. I couldn't make out which was which after that, and ran in to a hell of file permission errors. Furthermore, some OSX Applications would not start anymore. Therefore, I reinstalled Jaguar from scratch. I would not recommend to run the disc utility after installing passwd. I for myself have decided to keep my finger of passwd.
What I could imagine is that this works the other way round: Once you have the wrong permissions on the root directory, there are a couple of essential system services that are no longer able to run. If you leave the machine in this state, all kinds of strange things may happen. I would assume, however, that most of these things will return back to normal once you fix the permissions on the root directory and reboot.
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Martin
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