On Sep 12, 2014, at 10:32 AM, Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.email> wrote:
> On 9/12/14 7:18 AM, Michael Maibaum wrote: >> I'm not sure that is true: >> my setup: >> >> → ls -l /usr/ | grep local >> drwxrwxr-x 20 root admin 680 12 Sep 15:14 local >> >> this works: >> maibaumm:/Users/maibaumm >> → touch /usr/local/blah >> >> >> I'm reasonably sure that OS X does use admin as it's primary 'Admin' >> group. This isn't a perfect check as I'm at work and I've got lots of >> AD derived groups complicating things... > > Yeah, when I received this system it was all about the admin group. > > The permissions you have above Michael are the ones that I want to use, but > the problem I'm seeing is that unless the group is the first one listed in > the output of 'id' or 'groups' (i.e., my personal group) I can't write to the > directory. It doesn't matter what group I try other than the first, the > result is still the same. Have you tried doing a “Repair Permissions” on the disk? -Carl _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
