In Permissions Repair it says that SUID has been modified and will not be repaired. What is SUID and why not and does it matter?
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
I don't know what it means, but you can safely ignore it. Here's a list of others that can be ignored:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
As Paul says, the message should be ignored, but see
setuid for the what.
Very Interesting!! I had problems downloading Mavericks. I thought initially that I had lost years of accumulated files until I rebooted the computer to find that it had set me up as a Sub User but with the same name and password. My old UID was, thank the Lord, still there and I have simply ignored the "clean" account. Do I dare simply delete it I wonder or "let sleeping dogs......."?
If there's nothing in them, then any unwanted accounts can be safely deleted. They take very little space though, unless files were created/added. Note that the original messages in Disk Utility don't relate to that - permissions repair doesn't touch the user accounts at all.
You could delete the new clean account that you don't need. One of the options when deleitng a user account is to archive the account you're deleting. If you choose that option you have a get out of jail card it you need it 🙂. In the future, and when you're certain you don't need it, you can choose to dump if for good.
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