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Author:  oceanicitl [ Wed May 18, 2011 9:12 am ]
Post subject:  Silly Colleague *rolls eyes*
My silly colleague has managed to lock his desktop on his Macbook. He's running 10.6. I have tried running the following unix command in terminal:

chmod -R 777 [drop folder here]

on his desktop and home folder but it says operation not permitted.

He's got bootcamp installed and Windows 7 so I am blaming that.

Any ideas people? He's new to mac and has already blown this one up once :lol:

I've told him to delete his account and re-create it!
Author:  jonbwfc [ Wed May 18, 2011 10:14 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Silly Colleague *rolls eyes*
oceanicitl wrote:
I've told him to delete his account and re-create it!

Create another account on the mac, give it admin privs, let it take ownership of the relevant directory then give it back to him?

JOn
Author:  steve74 [ Wed May 18, 2011 11:03 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Silly Colleague *rolls eyes*
Can you not select the main Home folder, do a "Get Info" and click the little padlock in the Sharing & Permissions section, entering in the user's admin password. Then, assuming the permissions on the main home folder are correct (i.e. the user is the owner, and all others are set to "Read only"), then go under the little options pop-up menu (the one with the cog wheel icon at the bottom) and select "Apply to enclosing items" - which should filter down the same permissions to all subfolders in that Home folder. The Desktop is just a folder within the main Home folder anyway.

Or try using Disk Utility's "Repair Disk Permissions" option?
Author:  EddArmitage [ Wed May 18, 2011 11:45 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Silly Colleague *rolls eyes*
Have you tried running chmod with sudo?
Author:  Linux_User [ Wed May 18, 2011 11:53 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Silly Colleague *rolls eyes*
EddArmitage wrote:
Have you tried running chmod with sudo?

+1
Author:  forquare1 [ Wed May 18, 2011 1:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Silly Colleague *rolls eyes*
The home directory should look like this:
Code:
$ ls -l
drwxr-xr-x+ 104 benlavery  staff   3536 18 May 06:50 benlavery


Make sure the owner and group is correct (the "benlavery" is the owner, "staff" if the group).

If any of the above was incorrect, I would do:
Code:
$ sudo chown -R benlavery:staff benlavery
Enter Password:


That sorts out owners. If there is a problem with permissions, it should probably be:
Code:
$ sudo chmod -R 755 benlavery


Check out this too:
Code:
$ id -p
uid   benlavery
groups   staff com.apple.access_ssh _developer _lpoperator _lpadmin _appserveradm admin _appserverusr localaccounts everyone com.apple.access_screensharing com.apple.sharepoint.group.1


His groups should be pretty similar to mine I'd have though. To add a group, I'm pretty sure you can do:
Code:
sudo dseditgroup -o edit -t user -a benlavery groupName


The Mac I am using to test all this is running the latest version of Snow Leopard, I am the first and only user on here (uid 501) and am an admin user. Should be pretty similar to your guy?
Author:  oceanicitl [ Wed May 18, 2011 1:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Silly Colleague *rolls eyes*
It's OK panic over he'd locked the folder!

And yes I do sudo when I do any commands in Unix - thanks!
Author:  forquare1 [ Wed May 18, 2011 3:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Silly Colleague *rolls eyes*
oceanicitl wrote:
And yes I do sudo when I do any commands in Unix - thanks!


Don't! It's bad practise. Best case is you lock someone out of something and you have to go back in and undo it. Worst case is that you delete/remove/unset something that you can't undo.
Author:  jonbwfc [ Wed May 18, 2011 3:12 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Silly Colleague *rolls eyes*
<wrinkles brow> Actually, wouldn't a 'repair permissions' from Disk Utility fix this?

Jon
Author:  forquare1 [ Wed May 18, 2011 7:37 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Silly Colleague *rolls eyes*
jonbwfc wrote:
<wrinkles brow> Actually, wouldn't a 'repair permissions' from Disk Utility fix this?

Jon


Depends if Disk Utility plays with user files or just system files...
Author:  oceanicitl [ Fri May 20, 2011 2:36 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Silly Colleague *rolls eyes*
jonbwfc wrote:
<wrinkles brow> Actually, wouldn't a 'repair permissions' from Disk Utility fix this?

Jon


I find terminal commands are quicker. There's a number of ways you can do it.

C
Author:  jonbwfc [ Fri May 20, 2011 5:22 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Silly Colleague *rolls eyes*
oceanicitl wrote:
jonbwfc wrote:
<wrinkles brow> Actually, wouldn't a 'repair permissions' from Disk Utility fix this?
Jon

I find terminal commands are quicker. There's a number of ways you can do it.

<Nods>. Certainly if you have a list of what bits to fix. In this case however it sounded like nobody knew quite what had been done, so it's worth considering letting the computer 'set everything back the way it should be' in one go rather than having to hunt down god-knows-what ACL changes down through his home directory tree.

Jon
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