On Sun, 1 Oct 2017, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
It is correct for things at the top level of your drive ("/") to be owned by root:wheel. Not sure why that wasn't the case for you before. I wasn't aware that our installer would fix the ownership of items at the top level of your drive. Maybe it's a feature of Apple's Installer.
Some of mine are root:admin (Sierra): drwxrwxr-x+ 68 root admin 2312 Sep 20 20:56 Applications drwxrwxr-x@ 11 root admin 374 Nov 2 2015 Developer drwxr-xr-x+ 64 root wheel 2176 Apr 11 09:57 Library drwxr-xr-x@ 2 root wheel 68 Jan 1 2001 Network drwxr-xr-x@ 4 root wheel 136 Jul 21 15:13 System lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 60 Mar 13 2010 User Guides And Information -> /Library/Documentation/User Guides and Information.localized drwxr-xr-x 6 root admin 204 Jan 8 2017 Users drwxr-xr-x@ 5 root wheel 170 Oct 2 17:13 Volumes drwxr-xr-x@ 38 root wheel 1292 Jul 21 15:13 bin drwxrwxr-t@ 2 root admin 68 Sep 24 06:40 cores dr-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 4229 Sep 30 17:02 dev lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 11 Jan 1 2001 etc -> private/etc dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1 Sep 30 17:16 home -rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 313 Jul 31 2016 installer.failurerequests drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Aug 31 16:33 macOS_SDK drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 68 Dec 15 2015 mnt dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1 Sep 30 17:16 net drwxr-xr-x 4 root admin 136 Oct 17 2014 opt drwxr-xr-x@ 6 root wheel 204 Jan 1 2001 private drwxr-xr-x@ 63 root wheel 2142 Jul 21 15:13 sbin lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 11 Jan 1 2001 tmp -> private/tmp drwxr-xr-x@ 11 root wheel 374 Apr 11 10:10 usr lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 11 Jan 1 2001 var -> private/var -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."