Re: Applications folder ownership permissions
Re: Applications folder ownership permissions
- Subject: Re: Applications folder ownership permissions
- From: Rick Glaspie <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:14:16 -0700
On Monday, February 08, 2010, at 05:05PM, "Iceberg-Dev" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>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.
>
>
>
>
Any way to edit/reset ownership in a.receiptsdb since removing the 3 OpenXML packages from Receipts and re-running DU had no effect?
I tried to report it to Microsoft but they wanted $249 to continue talking on the phone...chicken not included.
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