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 16:25:10 -0700
Unfortunately this affects over a thousand computers across multiple campuses. Gotta love the power of ARD and Install Packages. Any hope of a fix to undo the persistence of 99:99?
On Tuesday, February 09, 2010, at 10:52AM, "Jesse Wesson" <email@hidden> wrote:
>I work on the MacBU team responsible for this installer and I'll log a bug
>to get this fixed.
>
>Thanks for bringing this to our attention and sorry about any trouble it's
>caused.
>
>Jesse
>
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>Jesse W. Wesson
>
>Development Lead
>Microsoft: MacBU
>425.706.1331 (x61331)
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>On 2/8/10 4:05 pm, "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.
>>
>>
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