Re: macports owns my user folder in most of my backups

2017-10-16 Thread Ryan Schmidt 

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.

Re: macports owns my user folder in most of my backups

2017-10-15 Thread db 
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? 
>  At the moment, even using sudo from the command line will not let me see the 
> contents of my backed-up user directories.

Check pondini.org.

Re: macports owns my user folder in most of my backups

2017-10-15 Thread db 
On 15 Oct 2017, at 00:41, Lenore Horner  wrote:
> I use Time Machine to backup my hard drive to an external drive.  At some 
> point (and I don’t know when) MacPorts became the owner of my folder in Users 
> for most or all of my backups.  Folders above that level are owned by the 
> system.  sudo chown will not change those permissions (the response is 
> operation not permitted).  Is there any way to fix this or are these backups 
> useless?

Check this post for some background, 
https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2017-September/036431.html.