[X4U] strange authentication

Stroller MacMonster at myrealbox.com
Thu Dec 2 07:20:15 PST 2004


On Dec 2, 2004, at 2:32 pm, Xavier Noria wrote:

> I don't know why, since I think yesterday a dialog saying that 
> "Applications cannot be modified" shows up if I try to drop an 
> application into Applications (the user is the admin, this never 
> happened before). I took a snapshot:
>
>     http://www.hashref.com/img/authenticate.png
>
> Another dialog requiring the password shows up if the admin user tries 
> to delete an application from Applications.

Sounds like a permissions problem.

$ ls -lhd /Applications/
drwxrwxr-x  34 root  admin    1K 17 Nov 22:41 /Applications/

If Applications does not have these permissions, then you can set them 
using `sudo chmod 775 /Applications/`

Stroller.



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