Dumb thing I did in OSX

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in macOS edited January 2014
Well, I got sick of having to log in as root to edit my system folder. So I went into my terminal. And probably did the dumbest thing



'chown -R jdewind:staff System'



Now, I assigned my group to that folder. so guess what happened when I tried to reboot. It wouldn't because it obvisouly it looking for 'system:wheel' which it is assigned by default when installed. I had to reinstall OSX, I doubt anyone will do something that dumb like I did. but just fair warning

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  • Reply 1 of 7
    composercomposer Posts: 212member
    Just so you don't feel alone...



    I've done that too...
  • Reply 2 of 7
    I've done dumb stuff like that on UNIX systems. At least one unix system.
  • Reply 3 of 7
    Funny.



    I like to take note of examples like this so I can point out to others the dangers of playing with the Terminal when you don't really know what you're doing.
  • Reply 4 of 7
    nx7oenx7oe Posts: 198member
    That was really a dumb thing you did <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
  • Reply 5 of 7
    macgpmacgp Posts: 88member
    Well. it was an easy fix though. So I am not too depressed about it. I know how to work in a terminal pretty well. I just REALLY didn't think at that moment.. Thats about the dumbest command line thing I have dumb I admit. But worse things have been done by other people. So if thats the biggest mistake I am going to make in a terminal so be it. I can live with that.
  • Reply 6 of 7
    My problem is that I did know what I was doing. Think twice type once
  • Reply 7 of 7
    macgpmacgp Posts: 88member
    [quote]Originally posted by Scott H.:

    <strong>My problem is that I did know what I was doing. Think twice type once </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Yes, I agree with that. After I rebooted I about slapped myself. And I had just installed new ram, so I thought I might have had bad ram. So it was a fiasco. Then when I pulled out the ram and it still didn't work. I realized the error. So I think that policy is gonna stick from now on



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