ronaldfromkerrville

Q: I upgraded to Mountain Lion, ran permissions afew days later.  Yesterday I tried to run permissions and the only line that came up was ""SUID file"system/Library/core services/remote management/ARDAgent/contrents/Mac OS/ARDAgent" has been modified and wil

I upgraded to Mountain Lion  Aug 12th.  I ran permissions a few day later got the normal "should be and repaired" lines. Yesterday I ran permissions and all I got was one line that read:  SUID file"System/Library/Core Services/Remote Management/ARDAgent/Contents/Mac OS/ARDAgent" has been modified and will not be repaired.

 

Has someone gotten to my computer?  About a year ago I upgraded to Lion and after 6 months got the same line when running Permissions. Computer started running slow.    Do I has some options or a fix?

 

Ron

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Aug 21, 2012 10:12 AM

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  • by Klaus1,

    Klaus1 Klaus1 Aug 21, 2012 10:14 AM in response to ronaldfromkerrville
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    Aug 21, 2012 10:14 AM in response to ronaldfromkerrville

    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.

  • by DMerz,

    DMerz DMerz Aug 21, 2012 12:50 PM in response to Klaus1
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    Aug 21, 2012 12:50 PM in response to Klaus1

    The article linked does not seem to contain the specific error/warning that ronaldfromkerrville mentioned.

     

    I also received that same warning when using Disk Utility with Snow Leopard BEFORE upgrading to Mountain Lion.

     

    It was the exact same warning - "SUID file"System/Library/Core Services/Remote Management/ARDAgent/Contents/Mac OS/ARDAgent" has been modified and will not be repaired".

     

    Again, I received that warning with Snow Leopard when I ran Disk Utility "Verify Disk Permissions" which found problems and so I ran "Repair Disk Permissions".  And everything report back "Permissions Repair Complete", except for the "Warning" above.

     

    I just ignored it and upgraded to Mountain Lion.  I am having some problems now which I tried to address on another thread.

     

    Is this something I should be concerned about and that needs to be "fixed"?

  • by Klaus1,

    Klaus1 Klaus1 Aug 21, 2012 3:02 PM in response to DMerz
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    Aug 21, 2012 3:02 PM in response to DMerz

    No!