... including resetting all group-permissions ?
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015), macOS Sierra (10.12.6), 2.8GHz; 16GB RAM
Repair permissions has been removed since 10.11 if I recall correctly.
Repair permissions only fixed permissions declared in package receipts (installers create them with specific permission settings).
I think there was a repair_packages tool but that also disappeared, this page has a third party alternative…
Apple claim that SIP prevents the installed permissions changing, so there should be no need to actually repair them anymore.
Repair disk permissions with Disk Utility - Apple Support
The repairUserPermissions was a feature of the recovery partition, it has existed for years but has recently moved to the OS. It is specific to user account permissions, not system permissions. It requires the '/' argument because users can store their user account on another disk, so the home folder may be at another /Volumes/path.
The second section covers repair user permissions in recovery mode…
http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/15/repair-user-permissions-in-mac-os-x-lion/
Please read the manuals if you try those commands or post more info on what you hope to achieve via these commands. Repair permissions can often be treated as a panacea to cure all ills when it may not be relevant.
The old "Repair Permissions" only affected system files and folders. It did nothing in your home folder.
ResetUserPermissions does the opposite. It only fixes permissions inside the home folder.
Except the Public and Sites folders, nothing inside the home folder has any group permissions. They have staff and everyone read only.
Curious, that you say, that the more-modern command, does nothing in other-than the home-folder, since the root-directory ("/"), is mentioned in the command .
So, how do I do, an old-style RepairPermissions, under the Terminal, in High Sierra ?
Does the "diskutil resetUserPermissions / `id -u`" Terminal command, do everything, that the old "Reset Permissions" button, did, ... ?
