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Re: Repair Permissions info needed

On Nov 30, 2005, at 3:43 PM, David A. Lyons wrote:

On Nov 30, 2005, at 11:02 AM, John Stiles wrote:
Well, this isn't very useful information; OS reinstalls have caused all sorts of file ownership issues since OS X 10.0, and nobody seems too keen to fix it.
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One workable fix: it appears to be sufficient to do a chown/chmod - R from the command line.

Aside from repairing the damage after the fact...what specifically is actually going wrong in the first place? How does "ls -lR" differ before/after the chown+chmod?

The most common case is an OS reinstall. This seems to cause problems for the user/group fields, which makes sense, since the list of users is being rebuilt from scratch. (I don't know how all that works internally, but I don't think there's a rational way to keep things consistent here.) I don't know what I'd do as an Apple engineer to fix the problem, but I do know that it's a big problem for us.

So now we're in a state where the owner and group fields are trash. The files are installed as world-readable but only user-writable; the end result is that users can play the game, but are unable to patch. For a game like World of Warcraft, which must refuse to let an unpatched user log in, there is no choice but to fix the installation or to reinstall.
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