Mac OS problems

[Antonio Godinho]

Hi Phil,

I have already tried to run the fix permission utility on the Mac but to no 
avail.

Here is what you asked for:

- mount
root_device on / (local, read-only, journaled)
devfs on /dev (local)
fdesc on /dev (union)

- df
root_device 57% (capacity) on /
devfs 100% /dev
fdesc 100% /dev

- ls -ld /Users
drwxrwxr-t 8 root admin

- ls -ld /Users/username
drwxr-xr-x 14 root admin

- ls -ld /Users/username/Desktop
drwxrwxrwx 41 501 admin

The owner of username used to be 501, I had changed it to root recently 
while trying to access the Desktop folder.

By the way, we are not getting the [afnog] in the subject lines...

Cheers,

AG



On Thu, 24 May 2007 16:01:50 +0200, Phil Regnauld wrote
> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 03:27:12PM +0200, Antonio Godinho wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I have this problem with a Mac OS X:
> > 
> > One of the users can not access anything on his desktop, I had a look at 
the 
> > permissions while booted into single user mode and I got the following
> > 
> > Drwxrwxrwx for the Desktop folder for that user (so 
under /Users/username)
> > 
> > I see from the other users that it should be Drwxr-xr-x but when I try 
to 
> > change the rights it says operation not permitted although i am root and 
I 
> > have mounted the partition as read write.
> > 
> > What else can I try? I can not even change the name of the folder 
Desktop.
> 
> 	Sounds weird -- try running Disk Utility and ask it to fix 
permissions.
> 
> 	Also, can you show the output of:
> 
> 	- mount
> 	- df
> 	- ls -ld /Users
> 	- ls -ld /Users/username
> 	- ls -ld /Users/username/Desktop


--
Antonio Godinho
B.Sc., MCP+I, MCSE, CCNA, CCNP
CIUEM
Maputo
Mozambique