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My mac is dragging slow all of a sudden. I tried to repair permissions and got this statement

Warning: SUID file “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent” has been modified and will not be repaired.


What does this mean? I checked the HD and it verify's ok.

Posted on Nov 13, 2012 6:39 PM

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Nov 14, 2012 2:32 AM in response to Dennis Swan

You can safely ignore it.


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 = 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

My mac is dragging slow all of a sudden. I tried to repair permissions and got this statement

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