[Ti] Verify Disk Permissions?

[Tarik Bilgin]

On 22 May 2004, at 15:31, Kim Gammelgaard wrote:

> Tarik, have you ever had a situation where there was any, and I mean 
> any at
> all, risk of data loss from running Disk Permissions?
>

No, and I should not have used the word "loss", but I would say that 
there is a low risk of a problem in the following scenario.

1. Accidentally or maliciously the contents of the bills of receipt in 
/Library/Receipts/ were changed.

2. The user unwittingly ran "repair disk permissions"  and the computer 
started misbehaving (encountering disk permissions problems).

All this utility (disk utility) does is check the .bom files in 
/Library/Receipts/, and change (using chmod) the disk permissions based 
on that. As long as those files are not modified everything should be 
fine.

I'm guessing the engineers who built the disk utility put the verify 
option in just for change management good practice and consistency with 
earlier disk utility applications.

In the grand scheme of things, hitting repair and hoping is probably 
OK, but verify might be useful to detect the situation in 1. , above.

Hope that makes what I meant clearer.

--
Tarik