Repair Permissions....HOLY ****!!!!

[wrldwzrd89]

No user is in the admin unix group by default, so you'd have to edit the /etc/group file manually. I'm not referring to Admin users specified in NetInfo. My user is in the admin group in NetInfo, and I cannot 'chmod 777 /Applications'. I think chmod uses /etc/group instead.

Of course, using sudo removes those barriers, which is what I was saying in my previous post. So a normal user cannot chmod the default apps or the /Applications folder without using sudo.

That makes the original poster's situation all the more baffling. Something must have been done that shouldn't have been under sudo - maybe the Xcode installer script got confused????

 

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That makes the original poster's situation all the more baffling. Something must have been done that shouldn't have been under sudo - maybe the Xcode installer script got confused????

Like I said, I removed my Developer's Tool install on my PB and reinstalled from an XCode 1.5 CD that I have. After installing, which required an admin password, I repaired permissions and there were just a mind-bogglingly huge amount of repairs to be made. Just about all of them dealt with XCode in some way or another.