[Ti] Permissions Repair

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Dr. Trevor J. Hutley suggested:
>sudo diskutil repairPermissions /
>
>			(password required)

Actually, you need an *admin* password in order to use the command
"sudo" (superuser do). Not all users have admin priviligies, though it's
common on one account machines to let the sole userhave admin status.
The best way to find out is of course to try the command and your
password and OS X will tell you.
In case your user is not an admin and there is an admin account or an
activated root account on your Mac, you do not need to change the status
of your user or relogin in th GUI. To use this the diskutil you can use
the "su" command and login as the privileged admin user like this:

su [admin_user_name]  [return]
then supply your password and hit [return] again

then execute the diskutil command with arguments again, this time
dropping "sudo":

diskutil repairPermissions / [return]
then supply your password and hit [return] again

The latter "/" denotes the whole OS filesystem, though not on other
partitions than the boot volume.

>Just in case it is of help to anyone else with a laptop and Leopard.
Leopard (10.5) is not a requirement. This command have been around since
10.2 at least. Also it works
on all OS X systems, not just the "books" (Powerbook, iBook, Macbook).