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[robotrenegade]

I saw this the other day and I wanted to know if i'm hacked.

*Notice the names "Wheel" and "staff". Is this normal? If not how do I take care of the files?

 

[Darwin]

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?

 

[robotrenegade]

What is "wheel"? I have access to any file but I wanted to know how Wheel got there.

 

[DoFoT9]

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!

 

[Darwin]

Just for your interest here is an Apple Support Page on the Wheel group:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA44217?viewlocale=en_US

 

[robotrenegade]

Just for your interest here is an Apple Support Page on the Wheel group:

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?

 

[DoFoT9]

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.

 

[Guiyon]

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.

 

[robotrenegade]

Thanks everyone. I've been up late. 🙂