Mac OS problems

[Antonio Godinho]

Thanks John. I have run it a few times now but still same problem.

Cheers,

AG

On Thu, 24 May 2007 10:43:59 -0700, John Crain wrote
> Running "Repair Disk Permissions" in  Disk Utility is actually a 
> good  tip all round for OS-X users.
> 
> Sometime when OS-X install updates the permissions get messed up.
> 
> I try and run it after every update/patch but generally forget ;)
> 
> John L. Crain
> Chief Technical Officer
> I.C.A.N.N.
> 
> On May 24, 2007, at 7:01 AM, 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
> >
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Antonio Godinho
B.Sc., MCP+I, MCSE, CCNA, CCNP
CIUEM
Maputo
Mozambique