G5 - you do not have sufficient permissions

I have a problem similar to one addressed by joshz last June. But I have gone one better - worse.
I was trying to install an upgrade to Firefox on my G5 PPC and kept getting "you do not have sufficient permissions" message. I did the "apply to enclosed items" on my user folder and still got the "not sufficient permissions". So in frustration I used that command in the Info window for the whole boot drive. It then let me install Firefox. However I noticed that little locks appeared on the icons for my three external drives, two firewire and one USB, and I could not open the Info windows. So I thought I should reboot. (by the way I moved those external drives to my Intel iMac to check them out but the locks went with them)
It would not reboot and the fans came on full blast. I reset PRAM and would get a gray screen w/ slashed circle and full fans. I reset NVRAM in Open Firmware and got a brief flash of the Apple screen then the gray w/ slashed circle and full fans. Next in Open Firmware I entered mac-reboot. this time I got the gray screen and then this thread repeated three times:
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.0.0: Sat Mar 26 14:15:22 PST 2005; root :xnu-792.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
No debugger configured - dumping debug information
MSR=00001030
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x00095C64 0x00026838 0x000A8184 0x000AB880
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x548E8500)
PC=0x54986F94; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x54986F90; R1=0x446A39A0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x54986F90 0x002B9088 0x002DCE6C 0x002DD064 0x002DCD4C 0x002DB7E8
0x002EF400 0x54986828 0x002BD350 0x002BD118 0x002BDB80 0x002BE1EC 0x000A9654
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AppleMacRISC4PE(1.6.0d9)@0x54985000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.6)@0x54967000
dependency: com.apple.driver.IOPlatformFunction(1.7.0b1)@0x54975000
Exception state (sv=0x00F96280)
PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR=0x00000000 R1=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000 (Unknown)
And ending with:
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.0.0: Sat Mar 26 14:15:22 PST 2005; root :xnu-792.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
panic: We are hanging here. . .
I have available install disk for OS X 10.5.1 and DiskWarrior Rev 901. Before I try booting with either of these, does any one know if joshz's Unix scripts might unlock the boot drive and external drives? The scripts:
1. Open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal from the affected account.
IMPORTANT NOTE: copy the blue text in. Don't attempt to retype it, as a mistake could cause more issues.
2. Copy the blue text in, and press enter. chmod -R -N ~
That command removes all ACL entries from your home folder. The next commands put them back where they should be.
3. (Press enter after copying and pasting this command in). chmod +a "everyone deny delete" ~/ ~/Desktop ~/Documents ~/Downloads ~/Library ~/Movies ~/Music ~/Pictures ~/Public ~/Sites
4. (Press enter after copying and pasting this command in). chmod +a "`id -un` allow list,addfile,search,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr, writeextattr,readsecurity,writesecurity,chown,file_inherit,directoryinherit" ~/Public/Drop\ Box
After running those commands, your home folder permissions should be fine. NOTE: You may get a response:
chmod: Failed to clear ACL on file Commands: Invalid argument
chmod: Failed to clear ACL on file Notification: Invalid argument
That is safe to ignore. The rest of the commands will still work fine.
Any good advice here?
To Joshz,
I will never use "Apply to enclosed items" again.

farmerbob wrote:
OK, these comments are helpful. Now regarding backing up my home folder, can the G5 be booted in target mode from my Intel iMac in order to copy the home folder?
yes, but if you have TM backups there is no great need to do this.
Also is there a way to unlock the external drives without using the G5? The external USB drive has all my Time Machine backups on it. The Firewire drives have much of my customer data. Thanks to all for the advice so far.
you can unlock those drives from terminal after you reinstall the OS.
run the following terminal commands from and admin account with drives attached.
sudo chflags 0 /volumes/*
sudo chmod a+rx /volumes/*
you'll have to enter your admin password (which you won't see). that's normal.

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Message was edited by: user9287432

Thanks, Scott. I executed
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http://tinyurl.com/57vls4
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http://tinyurl.com/5daza8
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When I create a new DL that I want someone to manage, they received the following message when trying to add/remove from the DL:
"changes to the distribution list membership cannot be saved. you do not have sufficient permission to perform this operation on this object"
I have followed everything in "http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/18/453251.aspx" with no luck
Any suggestions?

Piggybacking off of the discussion above, with our deployment of Exchange 2007, we created a set of web-based tools that allowed people to create Exchange Resources including distribution lists. To allow multiple people to manage the lists for a given
department, we programmatically created a group, which is populated with one or more users from the "resource department". We then set the following AD permissions to allow members of the group to manage membership of departmental distribution lists:
Add-ADPermission -User DepartmentalGroup -AccessRights ReadProperty, WriteProperty -Properties 'Member' -DomainController dc.contoso.com
Fast forward to Exchange 2010 and the landscape has changed with Exchange 2010's implementation of Role Based Access Control and I'm struggling to come up with a way to programmatically allow a group of users to manage distribution list membership for a
subset of distribution lists - note that we have approximately 75 departments, with each having its own set of coordinators who should be able to manage distribution lists for their department but not lists created by other departments. The specific
error we receive in Outlook when attempting to modify group membership is the same as the title of this thread - "Changes to the distribution list membership cannot be saved. You do not have sufficient permission to perform this operation on this object".
I implemented the settings referred to at
http://sysadmin-talk.org/2010/06/omg-allowing-end-users-to-manage-distribution-group-membership-in-exchange-2010-2/ which details the process of creating a new management role and revoking the role's ability to create new distribution lists and remove distribution
lists (which we want because we want those actions to be performed using our web tools).
All that to say that the ultimate problem we have is that the above relies on the "ManagedBy" field of a distribution list (viewable by Get-DistributionList Listname | fl *ManagedBy*) to determine group ownership. When "ManagedBy" is set to a user,
the user CAN edit a distribution list's membership from Outlook and OWA. When "ManagedBy" is set to a group, members of the group are UNABLE to edit the membership of the distribution list via Outlook or Outlook Web Access/ECP. Furthermore,
Set-DistributionGroup does not allow you to specify a list of users to assign to the ManagedBy field. However, if "ManagedBy" was set to a specific user and that user logs in to the Exchange Control Panel and adds additional "owners" of the distribution
list, which I can then see from EMS - both the original owner and any additional owners added can in turn modify group membership for the list using Outlook or Outlook Web Access/ECP.
My questions:
1) Is it "expected" behavior that while I can assign a group to the "ManagedBy" property of distribution list, members of that group are still unable to edit the group membership? ...or is there a fix for the behavior I'm seeing?
2) Can multiple values be assigned to the "ManagedBy" property when using Set-DistributionList - ex: Set-DistributionList DLName -ManagedBy:user1,user2
3) Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
-Lance

G5 - you do not have sufficient permissions

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