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Repair Privileges
Authored by: magill on Jun 27, '02 04:31:06AM

The routine will work on any volume containing an OSX system...I have several bootable volumes on my box, and all of them can be "repaired."

One thing to keep in mind if you intend to check multiple volumes -- SAVE the log file in between! Repairing a second volume clears the log.

The program evidently sets ownerships and privileges based on the defined settings found in the bom files in /Library/Receipts directory.

In addition to the two points about sendmail noted earlier, the privileges of / are also reset to group writeable -- just chmod it back after you run Repair Privileges ["ls -alsd /" to see the privs] ("chmod g-w /" to fix it.)



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