Re: Problem with permissions in ChmodBPF

[kevin creason <ckevinj () gmail com>]

Hi Robert-

First run these commands in a terminal to see what the permissions are
currently.
Here are my results:

command to execute:   ls -la /Library/StartupItems/

drwxr-xr-x   8 root  wheel   272 Feb  3 10:56 .
drwxrwxr-t+ 63 root  admin  2142 May 21 17:03 ..
drwxr-xr-x@ 5 root  wheel  170 Dec 16 09:27 ChmodBPF
drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel  170 Feb  3 11:11 NortonMissedTasks
drwxr-xr-x  8 root  wheel  272 Feb  3 11:11 SymAutoProtect
dr-xr-xr-x  5 root  wheel  170 Feb  3 11:11 SymProtector
drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel  170 May 24 09:08 VirtualBox
drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel  136 Jul 11  2008 globalSAN


second command: ls -l /Library/StartupItems/ChmodBPF/

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   954 Nov 24  2009 ChmodBPF
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root  wheel  2551 Nov 24  2009 README.macosx
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root  wheel    84 Nov 24  2009 StartupParameters.plist


As you can see everything in the StartupItems directory needs to be owned by
root and group wheel.

To fix it I recommend becoming root and using the command line but you have
to be careful and do it exactly as shown. Apparently somehow the directory
for the other StartupItems were changed, common when not careful with typing
or copy/paste.

To fix it--
become root in your terminal session. This is dangerous, be very careful and
then exit out as soon as you are done.
command to become root: sudo su -

Once you are root change the working directory
command:  cd /Library/StartupItems

Now the first question is does the permissions on your StartupItems
directory match mine above? (This is the . permissions in my first example
output).
If not, fix this one with command: chmod 755 .
And fix ownership with command: chown root:wheel .

Then proceed to do the same with each directory and file, replacing the "."
in my examples with the file or directory listed until everything is
rwxr-xr-x and owned by root:wheel

There are shortcuts to blast the permissions down the directory tree but
that way lies danger for the Unix inexperienced.

don't forget to exit out of your root session, hit Ctl and 'd' key or type
exit.

HTH

-Kevin
/*“ I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know
what can't be done. ” -- Henry Ford  */



On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Robert D. <210525p42015 () denstarfarm us>wrote:

> From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 11:17:03 -0700
>
> > They need to be owned by root, as do the containing directories.
> > Make sure that /Library/StartupItems is owned by root:wheel,
>
> I logged in as Root and just re-installed Wireshark
>
> That did not help
>
> So I changed permissions via 'Get Info' so that Wheel had R/W
>
> things are actually a bit worse at atartup in either my account(ADmin)
> or Root
>
>
> "Items in the Startup Items folder (“/Library/StartupItems/”) have not
> been started because the folder does not have the proper security settings.
>
> “/Library/StartupItems/ChmodBPF” has not been started because it does
> not have the proper security settings.
>
> ChmodBPF shows _unknown R/w; staff R
>
>
> I didn't touch this folder:
>
> “/Library/StartupItems/ParallelsDesktopTransporter” has not been started
> because it does not have the proper security settings.
>
>
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