Re: sudo and locked files in OS X

2010-01-13 Thread Philip Newton
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 16:13, Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org wrote: I suspect that the short answer to this is I am root, dammit. If I tell you to remove my head with a chainsaw, I expect you to assume I have a good reason and _do_ it. I didn't su - just for fun. And I suspect that the

sudo and locked files in OS X

2010-01-13 Thread Joshua Juran
So I'm setting myself up with a non-admin account on OS X, which involves chowning a bunch of stuff. $ cd $DIR; sudo chown -R jjuran:jjuran . chown: ./path/to/files/foo.cp: Operation not permitted chown: ./path/to/files/bar.cp: Operation not permitted chown: ./path/to/files/baz.cp: Operation

Re: sudo and locked files in OS X

2010-01-13 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Joshua Juran jju...@gmail.com wrote: Aren't you glad you mentioned Panther? I'm all aquiver.. -- Chris Devers

Re: sudo and locked files in OS X

2010-01-13 Thread Joshua Juran
On Jan 13, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Chris Devers wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:05:08AM -0500, Chris Devers wrote: Congratulations, you've discovered ACLs. wintermute:~ jjuran$ /usr/sbin/fsaclctl -p / Access

AppleFileServer and the restarting cure-all

2010-01-13 Thread Joshua Juran
After replacing the dead hard drive in my iMac, Apple installed a fresh 10.4 Tiger system. Apparently not fresh enough, as any attempt to connect to the Personal File Sharing server a.k.a. AppleShare caused AppleFileServer to crash. I discovered this not by any sort of GUI notification

Re: sudo and locked files in OS X

2010-01-13 Thread Peter Corlett
On 13 Jan 2010, at 16:09, Chris Devers wrote: [...] If you find it the whole thing unbearable, you're welcome to keep running Panther, if you happen to still have any hardware capable of booting it. How much Panther-running hardware do you want? Come and collect from Shepherd's Bush...

Re: sudo and locked files in OS X

2010-01-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
Philip Newton wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 16:13, Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org wrote: I suspect that the short answer to this is I am root, dammit. If I tell you to remove my head with a chainsaw, I expect you to assume I have a good reason and _do_ it. I didn't su - just for fun.