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Looks normal to me, wheel I hardy see but I do know that Staff is a group of users for the system.
Which files are you wanting to work on?
Which files are you wanting to work on?
wheel would be some sort of built in user.
dont worry about it - if you change any of these settings you are likely to muck up access to your folders/system etc, i did this once and the only fix (at the time to my knowledge) was to reinstall the system!
dont worry about it - if you change any of these settings you are likely to muck up access to your folders/system etc, i did this once and the only fix (at the time to my knowledge) was to reinstall the system!
Just for your interest here is an Apple Support Page on the Wheel group:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA44217?viewlocale=en_US
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA44217?viewlocale=en_US
I never made that user thats why I'm worried. When I login, I'm the only user. Ideas?
like i said, stop worrying.
there are 100+ user accounts that are already created when OSX installs - these all run in the background.
you have nothing to worry about.
Those permissions looks fine. 'wheel' is one of the older groups present in the *nix systems (by default, 'root' belongs to the 'wheel' group). It was originally used for specifying which users could 'su' to 'root'. On Mac OS X systems, most of the POSIX directories (/usr,/bin,/sbin,...) are typically owned by root:wheel and most of Apple's directories are owned by root:staff or root:admin. One thing to remember on most modern systems you are not the only user on the system; the only human user, maybe, but most of the system services run under alternate users/groups for security purposes.
