I'm not sure that is true: my setup: → ls -l /usr/ | grep local drwxrwxr-x 20 root admin 680 12 Sep 15:14 local
this works: maibaumm:/Users/maibaumm → touch /usr/local/blah I'm reasonably sure that OS X does use admin as it's primary 'Admin' group. This isn't a perfect check as I'm at work and I've got lots of AD derived groups complicating things... On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:01 AM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06 Sep 2014, at 15:03 , Doug Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > > The issue I need help with is the fact that I cannot write to a > directory that is writable by the admin group, even though I'm a member of > the admin group. Or more generally, I cannot write to any directory owned > by a user that isn't me, with group write permissions OTHER than my > personal group, which is listed first in the output of both 'id' and > 'groups’. > > Your permissions do not match the permissions I see on my Macs. The group > OS X uses for admin users is “wheel” not admin. > > Something is different on your setup, and that difference is probably the > source of your problems. > > It’s impossible to diagnose your problem remotely. > > Create a new admin user in the GUI and see what happens there. > > -- > The way I see it, the longer I put it off, the better it'll end up > being. Heck, school doesn't start for another 43 minutes. > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >
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