Neil Tiffin wrote: > >> I have the following permissions for /sw/fink: >> >> drwxr-xr-x 5 hansen admin 476 2008-08-17 22:01 fink >> >> >> > > Thanks, I changed my permissions recursively to root:admin and > everything started working again (Mac OS X 10.5.4) > > Neil > > > This is BAD security practice for Fink. The Fink directory should be OWNED by YOU, not ROOT. This maybe why you originally had this problem. This would require sudo just to run Fink to do anything. Let Fink decide what needs to be installed/updated with root privileges. Please change your permissions away from root.
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