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10.5: Repair a user/group Finder crashing issue
>This is because in older versions of Mac OS X, users belonged to their own private groups All pre-Panther cats (Jaguar, etc.) had users' files and folders in the staff group. So this is not anything new. It may be that Leopard has *reintroduced* this to make "sharing" a lighter task... but Panther used the '501/501' scheme as part of the enhanced security features it promoted (shadow passwords, etc). What's really happened here is that -- due to the demise of Net Info and the final move to Directory Services -- some users using some upgrade paths had some problems (with their accounts getting converted properly). Their special private 'group' simply didn't make the trip. [Whether this is a bug on Apple's part, or maybe the users backed up to a disk where ownerships were ignored, or both, or something else... isn't entirely clear. What is clear is that there is an alternative (as robg linked to) to simply create the missing group. Somehow though, I don't think their command sequence is the best solution yet, because: there's no provision to link our group name to any *gid* number. [I wish some server gurus here would post about this.] Anyway... here's my best attempt thus far:
As the O.P.'s script suggests, realize that: those commands I posted should be pasted into Terminal (one-by-one) as they are... and *not* saved as a script which gets run with sudo. If that were done, many variables would execute with values of '0' instead of '501'. Comments/corrections welcome. -HI-
10.5: Repair a user/group Finder crashing issue
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