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Mar 11, 2008
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Hello Forum,

Since installing Lion, when I run Repair Disk Permissions in Disk Utility, the authentication dialog lags. By lags, I mean whatever I type or click takes several seconds to register. I would like to find out if anyone knows how to fix this...

I have a feeling that deleting the right file(s) beneath ~/Library/ will cause some corrupt settings file(s) to be regenerated and then this problem will go away.

Fyi, I do not notice this issue with other apps that require admin user authentication, such as Software Update. In fact, a workaround is first I check for software updates (which prompts me to authenticate with an admin user's password), then before the escalated privileges session expires, I Repair Disk Permissions and am not prompted for an admin user's password.
 
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Just in case anyone else is experiencing this issue and finds this thread (it was happening on my MBP and iMac), it is fixed now: apparently the upgrade to 10.7.2 fixed it.
 
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