Did something wrong in root?

trevormtrevorm
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in macOS edited January 2014
Hi there, I was wondering if some OSX genius could help me out. I logged in as root user on my powerbook the other day so I could trash JBuilder. Whilst doing that i Got Info on my MACintosh HD and looked at Privileges, as I had just set up my Airport netwrok with my other comp! Silly me pressed APPLY button which Applys to all folder, having no clue what I di I just loged out and went back to work in my login, but noticed that I can no longer mount disk images and when I go into terminal there is a line of text with the following:

login: setgroups: Operation not permitted



Anyone know what I have done with my Powerbook??? Or is this normal??? <img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[Surprised]" /> <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" />



oopps I almost forgot to add I cant get my iDisk working, I can in OS9 and in X I cant, check my settings, they look happy!



[ 06-05-2002: Message edited by: trevorM ]</p>

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 6
    spartspart Posts: 2,060member
    Fear not; Apple will include a utility to fix this with 10.2. And if you want to use these things in X, it can be accomplished from the root.
  • Reply 2 of 6
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    *snicker* <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />



    Reformat. Reinstall.



    Unless you really want to spend a long time manually setting privileges, that's what I'd suggest.



    You know, there are many good reasons why Apple disables root by default. You just found one.
  • Reply 3 of 6
    spartspart Posts: 2,060member
    If you can't back up your stuff, I would reccomend waiting for Jag. It'll be here in oh say, 40 days. Maybe more.



  • Reply 4 of 6
    bkasaarbkasaar Posts: 9member
    Oh, Trevor. Didn't you read the warnings about "if you become root, you could destroy civilization as we know it"?



    I have to (at least partially) agree with Starfleet here. I can't see what a new version of the OS will help unless it installs from scratch and wipes out everything you mangled with the clever root stuff. And a word to the wise from the previously not very wise: if you want to be root to do anything, just try to pretend you're splicing cables on the power line in the street. Okay, so you won't die from frying your system, but sometimes you wish you did. Type with two fingers and look at everything three times before you hit enter. And it wouldn't hurt to make sure you have a backup of anything that you wouldn't like to see vaporized.



    However, short of reformatting the easiest fix is just try re-running the install cd. In my limited experience with X, it seems to leave most of your prefs in place and only fixes the system and replaces anything you may have moved from its default position. But if this doesn't work, you're on your own.



    Happy camping
  • Reply 5 of 6
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    [quote]Originally posted by BKasaar:

    <strong>I can't see what a new version of the OS will help unless it installs from scratch and wipes out everything you mangled with the clever root stuff.</strong><hr></blockquote>Actually, the Jaguar version of Disk Utility has an option to "repair file permissions" which will fix fuck-ups like this.
  • Reply 6 of 6
    trevormtrevorm Posts: 841member
    :o Reintstalled OS 10.1.4. Wont be playing around in root for a lil while!
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