Guy did a chmod thing, and now can't boot to his account. I am trying "chmod -R -E /Users/username". I hit "return" and get a ">". How ong shouold this take? Willl it fix this issue and allow him to again reboot? Easier method? Thanks.
Note: MB with Snow Leopard.
Are you trying to change ownership? If so try this:
Open Terminal and enter this:
sudo chown -R username /Users/username [Press return, read the lecture, enter your password]
chmod -R u+rwX /Users/username
[Press return]
That will change file ownership of the contents of the whole home folder and restore read and write.
Can't boot it up, Kappy. Can I do this in Single User? Thanks.
He messed up the ability to boot into anything but guest user. Make sense?
Yes, I think so. But start with:
/sbin/mount -uw /
This will make the filesystem writeable. You won't need the "sudo" because you will be root. "Chown" is in /usr/sbin/ and "chmod" is in /bin/. You'll need to provide full paths to everything: /Volumes/volname/Users/username, for example.
Kappy, please be very specific. I am not a Terminal Command kind of guy. I did the "sbin" thing. That worked. No idea what the Volname is. I do have a user name. I suppose MacintoshHD is a good start. I'll T-mode if i need to.
If I do figure out the
:/Volumes/volname/Users/username, command, after the sbin command, do I then apply
chmod -R u+rwX /Users/username
Thanks.
Maybe I should restate my question. I just need to get control of this user (in single user mode), to boot into it. Thanks.
OK, I thought you were as familiar as I am (which isn't that much, btw.)
After booting into single-user mode and you are at the prompt:
/sbin/mount -uw /
/usr/sbin/chown -R username /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Users/username
/bin/chmod -R u+rwX /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Users/username
reboot
I think this will do it.
Hint: you may want to find a new friend. This one certainly sounds like a loser.
Allan
Real quick. The username is "Mark's iB". do I need a "\" in betwee? Thanks
Some gave him "advice" about dooing this to get permissions for the internet. I don't even know what he did.
Well if it were my Mac, he would never even be allowed to see it again never mind use it if he did that to mine.
Allan
Yep. Should be "Mark\ iB".
Friend screwed up startup with chmod.
