On 06/10/10 09:38PDT, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Oct 6, 2010, at 7:07 AM, Dennis B. Swaney wrote:
Suggestions/help required please.
Have you tried enabling "root" and booting up into it? You should then be able
to change the permissions.
For a variety of reasons, enabling root to have login permissions is a Very Bad
Idea. Don't do that; you can render vast chunks of your system unavailable to
other users and open countless security holes in file permissions and ownership.
Ditto Terminal, IF you are not careful. If root is so dangerous, Apple
would have not allowed it to be enabled at all. But they did, AND they
said to DISABLE it when you were done; to NOT leave it enabled as routine.
The 2x I had to use "root", I crossed my fingers and toes, sacrificed a
couple of live chickens, went in, did the ONE thing I had to do, and got
out. "root" has been disabled on my Macs for the last several years. I
think it was last used in either Panther or Jaguar.
I also stay away from Terminal unless someone gives me SPECIFIC,
STEP-BY-STEP instructions as Dan did in his post.
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Sincerely,
Dennis B. Swaney
"Windows is a command-line OS with a GUI shell while Mac System 10 is
... oh, never mind."
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