[X4U] Application Folder - Permissions for unknown user

[John Erdman]

Thanks. You've lowered my anxiety quotient considerably.  Was really  
surprised at how many "users" were identified in the dscacheutil  
command. The "unknown" was there just as you suggested with the same  
UID and GID.

This at the edge of my need to know but I'll search further and longer  
at the Apple discussion group The first 5 minutes didn't turn up much  
useful.... except to note that others have observed the same thing.

BTW my installation is a pristine Leopard install. And I used the  
migration assistant.

John





On Nov 20, 2008, at 3:42 PM, John Baltutis wrote:

> The unknown user (and group) is a normal one in OS X.
>
> Running this command in the Terminal app, "dscacheutil -q user "  
> reveals:
>
> name: _unknown	uid: 99	gid: 99
>
> Don't muck with it.
>
> Go to <http://discussions.apple.com/> and search for "unknown user".  
> The
> resulting posts should point you in the right direction WRT to your  
> query.
> Apparently, it's what gets assigned when using the upgrade install  
> option on a
> previous Panther or Tiger installation.
>
> On my installation, which was a pristine Leopard OS that I used the  
> Migration
> Assistant to transfer from a Tiger installation, my /Applications  
> folder
> permissions are: owner me w/R&W, staff w/R&W, and everyone w/R only.