Hi all, one of my students emailed me with the following issue. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? I'm not much of a Mac person so I'm not sure all of the implications / work arounds, so I figured I'd email you all for some insight. Thanks!
The message I was sent: ---------------------------------------------- "The new cca is causing problems with installing on OS X. Leopard is effected the most. Basically what happens, is the CCA installer changes permissions for the CCA app, and the Applications folder. The owner get's set to "_Unknown" with read/write access, group is set to "Unknown", and others are only allowed read access. This prevents the system from making any needed changes to the Applications folder. In Tiger and earlier, this can easily be fixed by manually changing the owner and group in the get info box, to System(owner) and Admin(group). In Leopard however, this cannot be done. The get info box does not allow the removal _Unknown or Unknown. When adding a new user/permission the Finder crashes. I haven't looked into the cca installer enough to see what it installs, so I don't know any "quick fixes." It should be possible to fix the permissions via the Terminal, but I don't know the correct commands yet. " ------------------------------------------------ Thoughts? Thanks, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cat Hoffman Network Infrastructure & Security Engineer Office of Information Technology Valparaiso University 1700 Chapel Drive, B13 Kretzmann Hall Valparaiso, IN, 46383 Phone: (219) 464-6101 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
