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Repair permissions to fix remote login issues
Authored by: macemoneta on Aug 21, '03 04:05:48PM

Why do permissions always seem to get screwed up on Mac OSX? I have both a Mac with OSX and Linux machines, and I've never encountered this on Linux. On the Mac, I've had to repair permissions periodically, and I've started doing it after each installation (including maintenance) as a preventative measure. Is this a known bug, and if so any idea when this will be fixed? Or is this just something related to the way Apple is using the OS or developers mis-package software? It really is annoying.



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Repair permissions to fix remote login issues
Authored by: Convicted on Aug 21, '03 07:25:58PM

Just an extra hint:
If you ever have a problem with your iPod not showing up in the Finder nor iTunes repair the permissions too and reboot afterwards. It fixed the problem for me like 3 times already.

I don't know if it's a bug in OS X but since it's such a new OS and uses so much different 'groups' it could be. I think it could be a combination of bad packaged software and OS X not handling it too well but Apple's own software seems to get affected too.



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Repair permissions to fix remote login issues
Authored by: danskinnyman on Aug 21, '03 10:56:06PM

it has to do with programs (mainly installers) changing system files for their needs and then for some reason not changing them back. I know for an install of an ftp server (crushftp i believe) i had to alter the permissions of a system file so that it could operate. I'm assuming this is happening at a larger scale during some installs and then the installer not or being unable to return the permissions to what they should be.



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This fixed my remote login problem - THANK YOU
Authored by: captnswing on Nov 01, '04 04:28:55AM

for whatever reason, I couldn't connect to a remote OS X 10.2 machine with ARD. This hint solved my problem!!

just ran

sudo diskutil repairPermissions /
sudo shutdown -r now

in the remote shell and pang! it worked. Thanks for posting this, I would have never thought of it myself!



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