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Each user in Tiger has its own private group
Authored by: hayne on Jan 20, '06 09:34:38AM
The article says "users belong to the group staff". That was true in some earlier versions of OS X and for user accounts carried over from these earlier versions, but it isn't true for user accounts created in Tiger. (I don't recall but I think it wasn't true for Panther either.) On Tiger, each user belongs to its own private group.

% id fred
uid=502(fred) gid=502(fred) groups=502(fred)
This means that the 'chmod g+w' specified in the article will not be sufficient to give write permission to another user. Instead it likely would be necessary to use 'chmod a+w' to give all users write permission.

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Each user in Tiger has its own private group
Authored by: barefootguru on Jan 21, '06 10:59:44AM

'chmod o+rwx' is more specific than 'all', and then you can use 'chmod o=' when finished.

Alternatively, just enable the root user and use the root account to carry out the repair. Remember to disable root again when finished.



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