[X4U] strange authentication

[Steve Martin]

Use Disk Utility to repair permissions.

Then reboot (shouldn't really be necessary) and see if all is back to 
normal.

On Dec 2, 2004, at 10:24 AM, Xavier Noria wrote:

> On Dec 2, 2004, at 4:20 PM, Stroller wrote:
>
>> Sounds like a permissions problem.
>
> Agreed.
>
>> $ 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/`
>
> Bingo! Or so it seems.
>
> The permissions didn't match exactly those ones, they were equal 
> except the group (admin) didn't have write permissions. After the 
> chmod I tried again to drag in an application with the same result 
> unfortunately. Maybe the Finder is yet not aware of the change in the 
> command line?
>
> -- fxn
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