[Ti] Verify Disk Permissions?

[b]

Tarik Bilgin paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly:

>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.

I have a related question, what happens if you take the 
group-writable permission on / to get sendmail to work, does it get 
re-modded after Repair permissions?

~flipper