Problem with permission on high sierra

In High Sierra, you cannot change the permissions on the root level of the hard drive.

If it is an external drive, you can set it to "Ignore ownership" in Get Info.

Or, you can just create folders at the root level to use instead. Once created, you can modify the contents without authenticating.

• Verifies your startup disk and attempts to repair directory issues, if needed
• Loads only required kernel extensions
• Prevents startup items and login items from opening automatically
• Disables user-installed fonts
• Deletes font caches, kernel cache, and other system cache files

Ppaatt wrote:

The solutions here aren't working. I'd like to see Apple fix this terrible High Sierra.

They aren't "solutions." They are the way things are.

The root of hard drive is protected from tampering.

Apple may decide it doesn't require that much security, but until they you should find a suitable workaround.

Wow. I'm hoping that, Barney, you somehow aren't right about this—but it seems likely that you are. When I went into Terminal and couldn't chmod the volume's perms, I thought I was hacked or needed to reinstall or who-knows-what. I still can't quite believe it, but guess I must. This problem didn't exist on any Mac OS pre-High_Sierra, AFAIK. I actually found myself thinking that I ought to consider...you know, that other platform. ;-) Anyway, muchas gracias, amigo! FWIW, my relatively painful workaround was to open up Shared HD > User and copy (as copying via n/w was the issue) that way. SMH.

If you click on finder > Go > Macintosh HD > click on get info why are you trying to change the read and write permissions and interfering the settings .

The Mac user should not touch these settings , it could lead to system corruption and might have to install the operating system from the beginning .

Disable SIP, then change the permissions, then reenable SIP. Quick google search for that will turn up plenty of sites but basically you boot into recovery mode, go to terminal

csrutil disable

Then boot back up normally, change your permissions. Then back to recovery mode and

csrutil enable

Boot back into normal mode and that is it.

This is the problem I am having too.

When I network my two laptops any external drives attached to them appear on the linked computer. But in neither direction can I get the boot drive (or any area of that drive like my documents for instance) to appear on the other machine. So, since the installation of High Sierra 10.13.3 I cannot synchronise my computers. I had thought setting permissions for the boot drive to include me by user name (rather than the generic 'admin') might help. But apparently that's impossible because it's a very bad idea.

I can, however, easily link with my wife's computer (as a registered user) that's still running 10.12.6. The update to Sierra hasn't affected that network connection. It's just between my own two machines.

I know the high tech numpties would prefer I rent space in the cloud and synchronise my computers that way. But they are clearly never out of range of high speed wifi. Some of us spend time in less populated areas with a 1 meg internet connection. SO I would really appreciate it if someone can tell me how to retrieve the functionality I had.

It's not 'fair comment', it's nonsense and will not fix a myriad of problems associated with this insane "security" implementation. A vast amount of non-Apple software requires access to the root system.

MattHawker1 wrote:

It's not 'fair comment', it's nonsense and will not fix a myriad of problems associated with this insane "security" implementation. A vast amount of non-Apple software requires access to the root system.

It is nonsense that a vast amount of software developers are idiots. No developer should assume it has access to anywhere within the file system.

So, I just bought this $2000+ computer, and I can't even run it the way I want? I don't have permission to use my own files? **** that noise, I'm taking it back. That's the final nail in the coffin.

I had my previous mac for 10 years, and I RARELY had to get on to mac forums or anything for help/advice. Now I have this brand new computer, I can't run it like I'd like, I can't share, I can't do **** with it.

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MattHawker1 wrote:

Err......Idiots like QuarkXpress you mean? I guess you drive a car with the hood welded shut!

Yes, if they assume they can write to anywhere unfettered, then they are idiots. A developer who is not an idiot would ask the user where they would like to write data. If that is unavailable, they should inform the user and ask for another location. If they fail to do that, they are idiots.

From Terminal, when you enter this string, do you actually see a root ?

dscl . list /Users | grep -v "_\|nobody\|daemon"

So you're saying ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNT ROOT level you can not change anything ?

as in you can navigate here Nor Able to change things? - Are you changing System files ?

Have you tried to create another account and give it admin privileges ?

You could probably also escalate the authority of the 'root' account to what it should be if it's not set low enough - it should be set to ZERO (0), is it in-fact that when you run from terminal:

dscl . list /Users UniqueID

its Go > computer > Macintosh HD

I tried this method but still having the same issue. Any other hint?