Did something wrong in root?
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>
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
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.
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
<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.