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alexlinap23

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Apr 24, 2015
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after editing something in the host file, the (system) in sharing & permission was replaced by (me), and i can't find the way to change it back to (system)
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can anyone help me, thanks
 
Open Terminal.app in the /Applications/Utilities folder then type in and hit enter key, sudo chown root:wheel /etc/hosts, it will ask for your password type it in to complete the change.
 
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