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tried changing global perms, didn't work
Authored by: saint.duo on Apr 20, '01 04:53:37PM

i tried to change the global/world/others/everyone permissions of the hard drive from read only to none (as root), so that FTP users could not get any higher in the directory tree than the users directory unless they knew the exact directory names and structure. Well, that was a bad idea. upon closing the inspector/getinfo box, the finder, and system preferences apps both quit, and I had to reboot the machine. The machine would not boot properly afterwards, i could not log in, and sometimes the machine would not boot past the OSX boot panel without the progress bar. I had to boot off of the OSX cd, and reinstall the system to fix the problem. The machine seemed to have retained all of my settings, except for the fact that I had to re-update to 10.0.1

So, a warning to everyone to not change the global permissions of the OSX volume. At least, that's my experience with this. (it actually happened to me twice. the first time, i thought it was coincidence, so i tried it again, with identical results)



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tried changing global perms, didn't work
Authored by: David Stewart on Mar 20, '02 07:50:32AM

In case you do, do this, you can use the all-purpose plan B thing to fix it. Startup holding command-S, then
fsck -y
mount -uw /
cd private/var/db
rm .AppleSetupDone
bye



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