We’ve just come across what appears an interesting report, which describes problems and a solution for fixing permissions in Snow Leopard and Leopard.
The report comes out of Macworld via Network World, and describes situations in which users upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5.8 have faced problems fixing permissions on their start-up drive using Disk Utility.
There’s a rich stream of user comments on this over across at Apple’s very own Discussions forums.
Ted Landau has described a fix for afflicted users, which also includes news of a little-known Knowledge Base article detailing permis