HT203172: Mac OS X: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore
Learn about Mac OS X: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignoreQ: I get a long list of Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServicesRemoteManagement..." every time I verify disk permissions.& ... I get a long list of Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServicesRemoteManagement..." every time I verify disk permissions. Is there anything I can do to fix this? more
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May 18, 2013 11:20 AM in response to gonewestby Klaus1,As long as the report ends up with 'Permissions repair complete' then, as far as permissions go, you are fine. You can ignore the various statements in the report:
Permissions you can ignore on 10.5 onwards:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448
Using 'should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r--' as an example, you will see the that the permissions are not changed, but the | indicates a different location. This is because an update to Leopard onwards changed the location of a number of system components.
Poster rccharles has provided this description of what it all means:
drwxrwxrwx
d = directory
r = readw = write
x = executeable programdrwxrwxrwx
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| | all other users not in first two types
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| group
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owner
a little more infoBefore the user had read & write. A member of the group had read.
After, only the user had read & write.
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Jan 9, 2015 10:36 AM in response to ishadoeby BDAqua,Did you just Verify Permissions, or did you Repair Permissions?
If it was Repair Permissions then you can safely ignore any Verify or Repair messages after the first run... silly, but that is the way it is.