Privileges issues.

[macunkie]

Been a long time since I've had to submit for help on a forum for help on a mac. I'm running 10.7.4 and all of a sudden for example when I try to create a new folder on my desktop my system requires me to enter my password?
"Finder wants to make changes: type your password to allow: "

Don't know what I did , but some sort of setting is wrong. I've checked permissions and they are find. Did the reboot thing. Still same problem.

Any ideas ?

Thanks !

MacUnkie

[Solved] I right clicked my desktop;
Selected Get Info:
And gave Read&Write privileges to all groups.

[benwiggy]

You say "solved", but what you've done is to give everyone read and write permission to your Desktop, which is a security hole.

You "checked permissions and they were fine". If the permissions were correct and you still couldn't write to your Desktop, then that suggests something much deeper going on. (Unless you meant "Repair Permissions", which does nothing for the user folders.)

Can we see the results of the following Terminal commands?

cd ~/
ls -le
id
echo "done"

[macunkie]

Quote: Originally Posted by benwiggy You say "solved", but what you've done is to give everyone read and write permission to your Desktop, which is a security hole. You "checked permissions and they were fine". If the permissions were correct and you still couldn't write to your Desktop, then that suggests something much deeper going on. (Unless you meant "Repair Permissions", which does nothing for the user folders.) Can we see the results of the following Terminal commands? cd ~/ ls -le id echo "done"

Thanks you !

ls -le :

ls -le
total 264
drwxrwxrwx@  16 root      wheel   544 May 20 20:42 Desktop
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------@ 111 MacUnkie  staff  3774 May 15 22:35 Documents
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------@   9 MacUnkie  staff   306 May 20 15:01 Downloads
 0: group:everyone deny delete
-rw-r--r--@   1 MacUnkie  staff     0 Apr 29 00:06 Icon?
drwx------@  50 MacUnkie  staff  1700 Apr 29 10:12 Library
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------@   6 MacUnkie  staff   204 Apr 29 00:00 Movies
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------@   5 MacUnkie  staff   170 Apr 29 00:00 Music
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------@  39 MacUnkie  staff  1326 Apr 29 00:01 Pictures
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwxr-xr-x@   6 MacUnkie  staff   204 Apr 28 23:59 Public
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwxr-xr-x@   7 MacUnkie  staff   238 Apr 29 00:01 Sites
 0: group:everyone deny delete

id = :

Quote: uid=501(MacUnkie) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),401(com.apple.access_screensharing),12(everyone),33(_appstore),61(localaccounts),79(_appserverusr),80(a dmin),81(_appserveradm),98(_lpadmin),100(_lpoperator),204(_developer),402(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),403(com.apple.sh arepoint.group.2)

And yes, all I did was "repair permissions."

Samuel.

[ganbustein]

Your Desktop folder has the wrong owner. It's owned by root, and should be owned by you. I see you're an admin, so enter the following Terminal commands:

sudo chown 501:staff ~/Desktop
chmod 700 ~/Desktop


Everything else looks good.

[macunkie]

Quote: Originally Posted by ganbustein Your Desktop folder has the wrong owner. It's owned by root, and should be owned by you. I see you're an admin, so enter the following Terminal commands: sudo chown 501:staff ~/Desktop chmod 700 ~/Desktop Everything else looks good.

Thank you - made the changes and everything seems to be working correct now. No idea how how my Desktop folder ended up with the wrong owner ?

Thanks again !