Can someone help me? I receive the following Repairing permissions for “MacIntosh HD” Determining correct file permissions. Permissions differ on ./Library/Widgets, should be drwxr-xr-x , they are drwxrwxr-x Owner and group corrected on ./Library/Widgets

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Can someone help me? I receive the following Repairing permissions for “MacIntosh HD” Determining correct file permissions. Permissions differ on ./Library/Widgets, should be drwxr-xr-x , they are drwxrwxr-x Owner and group corrected on ./Library/Widgets

Repairing permissions for “MacIntosh HD”

Determining correct file permissions.

Permissions differ on ./Library/Widgets, should be drwxr-xr-x , they are drwxrwxr-x

Owner and group corrected on ./Library/Widgets

Permissions corrected on ./Library/Widgets

Permissions differ on ./System/Library/User Template, should be drwx------ , they are drwxr-xr-x

Owner and group corrected on ./System/Library/User Template

Permissions corrected on ./System/Library/User Template

Group differs on ./usr/bin/fetchmail, should be 0, group is 6

Permissions differ on ./usr/bin/fetchmail, should be -rwxr-xr-x , they are -rwxr-sr-x

Owner and group corrected on ./usr/bin/fetchmail

Permissions corrected on ./usr/bin/fetchmail

Permissions differ on ./usr/lib/php/build/Makefile.global, should be -r--r--r-- , they are -r-xr-xr-x

Owner and group corrected on ./usr/lib/php/build/Makefile.global

Permissions corrected on ./usr/lib/php/build/Makefile.global

Permissions differ on ./usr/lib/php/build/acinclude.m4, should be -r--r--r-- , they are -r-xr-xr-x

Owner and group corrected on ./usr/lib/php/build/acinclude.m4

Permissions corrected on ./usr/lib/php/build/acinclude.m4

Permissions differ on ./usr/lib/php/build/mkdep.awk, should be -r--r--r-- , they are -r-xr-xr-x

Owner and group corrected on ./usr/lib/php/build/mkdep.awk

Permissions corrected on ./usr/lib/php/build/mkdep.awk

Permissions differ on ./usr/lib/php/build/phpize.m4, should be -r--r--r-- , they are -r-xr-xr-x

Owner and group corrected on ./usr/lib/php/build/phpize.m4

Permissions corrected on ./usr/lib/php/build/phpize.m4

Permissions differ on ./usr/lib/php/build/scan_makefile_in.awk, should be -r--r--r-- , they are -r-xr-xr-x

Owner and group corrected on ./usr/lib/php/build/scan_makefile_in.awk

Permissions corrected on ./usr/lib/php/build/scan_makefile_in.awk

Permissions differ on ./usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib, should be -r-xr-xr-x , they are -rwxr-xr-x

Owner and group corrected on ./usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib

Permissions corrected on ./usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib

Permissions differ on ./usr/libexec/dumpemacs, should be -r-sr-xr-x , they are -r-xr-xr-x

Owner and group corrected on ./usr/libexec/dumpemacs

Permissions corrected on ./usr/libexec/dumpemacs

Permissions repair complete

The privileges have been verified or repaired on the selected volume

I Mac G 5, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on May 30, 2012 4:21 PM

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Answer 1

Kappy

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May 30, 2012 4:24 PM in response to Strum

And, what exactly is your question, please?

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Answer 2

Klaus1

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May 31, 2012 4:47 AM in response to Strum

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 and 10.6:

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 changed the location of a number of system components.

Poster rccharles has provided this description of what it all means:

drwxrwxrwx

d = directory

r = read

w = write

x = executeable program

drwxrwxrwx

| | |

| | all other users not in first two types

| |

| group

|

owner

a little more info

Before the user had read & write. A member of the group had read.

After, only the user had read & write.

If you are running Panther or Tiger:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA21090

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