At 10:13 AM -0700 10/6/2010, Dennis B. Swaney wrote:
On 06/10/10 09:38PDT, Bruce Johnson wrote:
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.
There is a big difference between Terminal and a fully rooted account.
The rooted account totally ignores all system protections ALL THE
TIME - in both the file systems on disk and and in the running OS
itself. A tiny slip destroys things.
Terminal, OTOH, is simply a NORMAL command line interface. It is no
more risky than using Finder and your normal apps. It isn't rooted,
until you use a sudo command -- and then it's JUST that one command
(sudo -s excluded, which creates a rooted shell).
- Dan.
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