On Oct 15, 2017, at 16:53, db wrote: > On 15 Oct 2017, at 23:16, Lenore Horner wrote: >> On Oct 15, 2017, at 03:28, db wrote: >>> Check this post for some background, >>> https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2017-September/036431.html. >> Well that tells me what probably happened but unfortunately leaves me >> clueless about how to fix or get around the problem. Is there a way to log >> onto my machine as the macports user so that my backup thinks I own the >> files? Or is that user not going to be able to open folders owned by system?
No, you cannot log on as the macports user. Can't really offer further guidance; don't understand how you got into this situation. >> At the moment, even using sudo from the command line will not let me see the >> contents of my backed-up user directories. I don't understand how that's possible, since sudo lets you do anything, as long as it's not prohibited by SIP, and I didn't think seeing lists of files was prohibited by SIP.
