Re: G4 iMac tells me I don't have privileges

2013-03-28 Thread johnhios

Valter Prahlad wrote:

Il giorno 27/03/13 19.50, Wayne Stewart ha scritto:

  

In the HD privileges, I'd try clicking on the apply to enclosed items



I strongly suggest to NOT do that!

After I moved my data from the old G5 to the new iMac, I had this strange
You don't have privilges things (that I didn't have on the G5). Grrr!!!
In frustration, I did the Apply to enclosed items thing on all my
partitions... 
as a result, on the next boot the iMac DID NOT BOOT anymore! :-(((


Apparently, that action above might seriously mess up things in OSX.
Thank God, I had another computer to use for looking for solutions on the
Net, and I found a way to heal all the partitions in good shape again.
Sincerely, I found this privilege thing quite baffling.

The OP might try to repair permissions, using Disk Utility; this perhaps
could fix eventual mess-up the teenager did.





  
if I may say  a word from experience with a same problem at one time :  
at some point the disk will lock you out, it is after the changes you 
made the commuter beware osx will lock you out !...


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G4 iMac says I don't have privileges

2013-03-28 Thread janesprando
 I loaned my G4 goose-neck iMac, running 10.4.x, to a teenager and just got it 
back. I have deleted his account and I am the sole person and Administrator. 
Every time I try to move a folder, empty the trash (or sometimes open an App), 
I get a message saying that I don't have privileges and must enter my password.

 When I click on the icon for the hard drive to Get Info, this is what it shows 
for Ownership and Permissions:

You can: Read and Write (grayed out)

Details: 
Owner: system ( can use drop down menu when unlocked, otherwise grayed out)
Access: Read and Write (grayed out)

Group: admin (drop down menu available when unlocked, otherwise, grayed out)
Access: Read and Write (grayed out)

Others; Read only (grayed out)

I have run Disk Permissions and Verified the Disk. No problems.


 Can someone tell me what is wrong and how to fix this? It is quite annoying!

Jane

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Re: G4 iMac tells me I don't have privileges

2013-03-28 Thread Bruce Johnson

On Mar 27, 2013, at 7:05 PM, Wayne Stewart waynejstew...@gmail.com wrote:

 I wasn't talking about giving anyone read + write access to the entire file 
 tree except the administrator. Jane siad she was the sole person and the 
 administrator on that computer. Giving herself access shouldn't be a security 
 issue.

You're giving the logged-on user access to things they shouldn't have; because 
Jane is logged on as a member of the Administrator's group does not mean she is 
'root'. It means she can ask to do things as 'root' (via sudo or the GUI 
authorization systems) which also means that processes running under her login 
cannot automatically do things to large swaths of the OS. This mechanism is 
defined by the permsissions system on files and folders. 

If you just grant readwrite access to the entire filesystem by a logged-in 
user *any* process running under that user's id can read and write to the 
entire filesystem.

This is the precise reason 'root' does NOT have a login shell in OS X. You can 
only accomplish things as root by invoking sudo (or explicitly enabling the 
root as a login account, but this is not reccomended.) Many Linux distrubutions 
have started going this way as well, precisely because it is a safer way to 
operate.

This is analogous to the bad old days of Windows XP and local admin users. Any 
process, even a rogue one started via malware in a web page or email can do 
anything it wants to the system *without asking*. This mechanism of 
permsissions and rights are what have kept OS X safe from malware, for the most 
part, for well over a decade (and Unix for many decades prior). Numerous Linux 
distributions have gone to this model as well. 


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Re: teach yourself illustrator CS3

2013-03-28 Thread peter
I hate to use the G word here, but Google sketchup's Layout product is prety 
good for 2D CAD on a budget as well.

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Re: teach yourself illustrator CS3

2013-03-28 Thread Bruce Ryan
 I hate to use the G word here, but Google sketchup's Layout product is 
 prety good for 2D CAD on a budget as well.
Thanks! Looks very cool to this non-draftsman - I've forwarded the link to my 
dad.

cheers

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Re: teach yourself illustrator CS3

2013-03-28 Thread JohnV
Sketchup is indeed used in many many MANY real-world-work situations  
for cross-platform design work,



On Mar 28, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Bruce Ryan wrote:

I hate to use the G word here, but Google sketchup's Layout  
product is prety good for 2D CAD on a budget as well.
Thanks! Looks very cool to this non-draftsman - I've forwarded the  
link to my dad.


cheers

Bruce

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New User

2013-03-28 Thread les simo

Hi All,
I bought a used iMac G5 which had  os x 10.4 already installed, I 
transferred via Firewire Target mode all my applications etc from my 
old G4 and updated the OS to 10.4.11. However, the computer name still 
shows the previous owner. I would like to change the name to the 
current owner. Is this possible? and how? Many thanks

Cheers, Les


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Re: New User

2013-03-28 Thread Bruce Johnson

On Mar 28, 2013, at 11:21 AM, les simo les.sim...@aol.com wrote:

 Hi All,
 I bought a used iMac G5 which had  os x 10.4 already installed, I transferred 
 via Firewire Target mode all my applications etc from my old G4 and updated 
 the OS to 10.4.11. However, the computer name still shows the previous owner. 
 I would like to change the name to the current owner. Is this possible? and 
 how? Many thanks

This is done via the Sharing preferences.

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