Re: Applications folder ownership permissions
Re: Applications folder ownership permissions
- Subject: Re: Applications folder ownership permissions
- From: Iceberg-Dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:05:41 +0100
On Feb 8, 2010, at 11:44 PM, Rick Glaspie wrote:
I'm in need of some guidance to re-write a wrong. The installation
of Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.1.3.mpkg causes the
ownership of the Applications folder to change from root:admin to
what appears to be user:staff. If you view the permissions as
root, they show up as _unknown:_unknown. The previous version of
Open XML Converter 1.1.0 also causes this problem. The version
prior to that was 1.0.2 and did not cause the issue. Running
repair permissions after installing 1.1.0 reset the ownership to
root:admin. Installing 1.1.3 six months later once again set
ownership to _unknown:_unknown, but running repair permissions had
no effect. Manually setting ownership to root:admin and then
running repair permissions reported that:
User differs on "Applications", should be 99, user is 0
Group differs on "Applications", should be 99, group is 80
which I find hard to believe.
Two questions. Where does the system read the ownership of the
Applications folder
The Repair permissions feature is relying on receipts for the Mac OS
X installation packages, usually.
and was it really necessary for the package to change those
permissions?
No.
OK maybe three. Is there any other program that does this?
It's not a program issue. The owner and group are incorrect in 3 of
the packages of their Open XML File Format Converter for Mac
1.1.3.mpkg distribution.
One has to admit it's creative to use 99:99. Usually, it's 502:502
(like it was in the first versions of Office 2008 for Mac - http://
support.microsoft.com/kb/948488).
The best thing to do is to report this to Microsoft and sacrifice a
chicken(*).
My $0.02
(*) Last time I reported issues in the Office 2008 packages, the
report was ignored. So maybe if you sacrifice a chicken, things may
work better for you.
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