Hey guys, going crazy here. Have tried Sudo commands, shell commands; trying to CHMOD myself to add permissions/ownership. Nothing works; I cannot unlock the file, no matter what I do. I'm admin, but cannot alter the file /private/etc/hosts I'm at a loss. Any ideas??
Open Terminal. Enter or paste:
sudo pico /private/etc/hosts
Press RETURN. Enter admin password when prompted. It is not echoed, so type carefully. Press RETURN again. Edit the file as you want, then use CTRL-O to write out the changes, then CTRL-X to exit the editor.
Do not willy-nilly start changing permissions. This is dangerous.
Unfortunately this made no difference, press cmnd + o now opens a file dialogue to open a new file instead of saving; and cmb + s asks me to over-write then tell me I don't have the appropriate permissions. I even re-intalled OSX just now; same problem 😟
Select your hard drive's Desktop icon. Press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. At the bottom what do you see displayed in the bottom panel - Sharing and Permissions? Is the box to Ignore permissions checked? If it is then uncheck it. Be sure the disk's privileges are set as follows:
I have exactly the same issue with Yosemite.
No way to modify-rewrite-replace-unlock hosts file with my admin account.
I even tried to use the app Gas Mask to be able to create a new hosts and use it temporarily but by some reason OS X doesn't allow to "activate" a new hosts.
I already repaired the disk permissions but didn't work.
Any help will be highly welcome.
Any resolution on this issue, I am having the same problem on El Capitan
OSX 10.9.4 ~ unable to change, unlock or modify hosts file??
