On Aug 11, 2004, at 5:23 PM, Marcin Wichary wrote:
Yeah, I don't know why they get mixed up either, given that OS X is so super-stable and all, but it seems they do.
See "Tutorial: Permissions, Accounts, and File Organization" <http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20040107175410865>
I read it, but it stops exactly where my knowledge does; as I mentioned, I know about Unix permissions, but I never had to repair them in any Unix/Linux/BSD machines I've been working on. I am still curious as to why you have to do it on Mac OS X.
Yeah I've been wondering this too and haven't found a good reason for it.
My only real guess that would make sense is some installer that removes the 'w' or 'S' bit from a directory that needs it.
"Repair Permissions" does seem very un-Unixy to me, and I've only done it once when there was a very specific problem with an installer than mucked them up. I do wish they'd be more specific and let me use chmod via Terminal rather than some blanket "change all permissions back to some default setting that was chosen who knows when by who knows who for who knows what"
TjL
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