On Feb 4, 2014, at 6:39 AM, Mugsy Lunsford <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> If you only see a uuid not a name in terminal when the machine is >> disconnected, this means that the user who 'owns' this stuff is not present >> in the local directory, and any permissions changes must be done the hard >> way (chown & chmod as root) by comparing it to a working system. > > changes made via chown and chmod by root are ignored on this system.
=8-0 I really hate it when that happens! That sounds like someone or something was screwing around with root or the Administrators group...which could be the cause of all the problems. > >> If "everything" means EVERYTHING, not just the POS software, nuke&pave it if >> Disk Utility Repair Permissionsdoesn't fix it. (This is the one time where >> Repair Permissions might actually be something more than a placebo) >> >> Me I'd probably say 'screw it' and nuke&pave followed by restoring data. > > Going to take it back in and format/clone from existing system. Really hoping > that these permissions issues aren't on some sort of multi-clone creep all > over the building. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
