Comments on: How To Repair User Permissions In Mac OS X

By: Juan Carlos de Burbon

Juan Carlos de Burbon — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:11:16 +0000

Just to qualify my post, which I didn’t do, I was referring to “sal’s” post:

sudo chmod -R 770 /Users/username

Bad, very bad and a complete misinterpretation of the original command.

By: Juan Carlos de Burbon

Juan Carlos de Burbon — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:07:22 +0000

WARNING!!!

This is the wrong command to run on your home folder.

It “breaks” several things.

The permissions on the Sites folder and on the Public folder are not the same as the rest of the folders in your home folder. If you run this command on your home folder, Web Sharing will not work and people will not be able to access your Public folder to retrieve document or put them in your Drop Box.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:42:14 +0000

Explain this. When using either -R 770 ~ or sudo chmod -R ug+rwX /Users/User, the permissions on my home folder change to include wheel read/write permissions. How and why is wheel showing up?

By: Sam Coupe

Sam Coupe — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:02:16 +0000

Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It worked, now I can dump the virus-ridden PC I’ve been using whilst my Mac was poorly!

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:14:45 +0000

When I type
http://localhost/~username
in my web browser I get this in return

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access /~username on this server.

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Fixing Errors in Dreamweaver CS3 and Firefox on Mac - OSX — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:43:15 +0000

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Ben Tortora — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:36:28 +0000

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By: Barry Ryan

Barry Ryan — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:50:32 +0000

I recently purchased a Mac Book Pro. I do home recording and I installed MOTU Digital Performer 5.13 but when i attempt to open it I get the following message Mac OS error: Access Denied. Insufficient access privileges for the operation. I saw your posting and tried the sudo chmod -R ug+rwX~. When i did this I was able to open the program but only once. The second time I tried to open it I got the same message and it wouldn’t open. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

By: ethicalhacker

ethicalhacker — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:09:37 +0000

So, in summary:

sudo chmod -R 770 ~

By: Clayton

Clayton — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:48:59 +0000

Yo I Have 2 things to Speed up this

First Since OS X is Fully Unix Based, it knows ~ is your home dir. In Short The Command Used to Be Completely Safe is:
sudo chmod -R ug+rwX ~

And @Matt What App is It? There are Some Apps That Must Be System Owned Which is a Little Harder to do!
thanks