Group differs on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, group is 26.

Greetings.
After performing Verify Disk Permission, i have this massage:
*Group differs on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, group is 26.*
Immediately i performed Repair Disk Permission but in the end i still get this massage.
Any idea what dose that means?
Thank you so much.
Cheers.

ChrisWad wrote:
How do you submit a bug to Apple as I want to put some weight behing this one.
Chris
Why? Who says it's a bug worth worrying about?
Ever since Repair Permissions was introduced (around 10.1.5 I seem to remember, although it was 10.2 before it was integrated into Disk Utility) there have been occurrences of these "spurious" errors.
Take a look at these:
Spurious Permissions errors in 10.2
Spurious Permission errors in OS X 10.3
Spurious Permission errors in OS X 10.4
Some of these disappeared with point updates, others didn't. They did not prevent anyone's system working. They were acknowledged as unimportant in this article: Disk Utility reports some messages that you can ignore when checking permissions.
I didn't write an equivalent for 10.5, because there were so many ACL and SUID errors which changed with each version, see Mac OS X 10.5: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions reports issues with SUID files.
This particular message is of no consequence. It may or may not disappear with the next system update. But if it bothers you, the answer is simple: stop Repairing Permissions!

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ERROR when repairing permissions: Group differs on "private/etc/cup"

Hi,
When I run permissions repair on my Leopard 10.5.4 I get the error message:
ERROR when repairing permissions: Group differs on "private/etc/cup", Should be 0, group is 26
Any idea why... It pops up every time I run permissions repair so I don't think it is really getting repaired.
Thanks.

Ignore it. It's been reported as a bug and is under investigation.

Repaing Permissions = Group Differ on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, grou

Repaing Permissions = Group Differ on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, groups is 26.
It says this everytime, even when it was brand new...
What does this mean? Whay doesn't it go away after repairing?

This error message has been occurring since Mac OS X 10.5.4 I believe, it's not harmful in any way to the operation of your Mac, so I wouldn't worry about it. I'm sure Apple will have this fixed in a future update.

Permissions errors? ./private/etc/authorization, should be 80, group is 0

in the past 3 days i've been finding a error show up- on several machines- where programs would quit before they would even start up.
the only way i've found to fix it, has been to run "Disk Utility" and repair the permissions for the drive management.
Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
Determining correct file permissions.
Group differs on ./private/etc/authorization, should be 80, group is 0
Owner and group corrected on ./private/etc/authorization
Permissions corrected on ./private/etc/authorization
has anyone else found this error? where is this coming from?

Thanks!
Until I fixed this error using Disk Utility, I couldn't install a 3rd party software app. I didn't log in as root to do it either, just repaired permissions and the install "took" the second time. I'm a member of the admin group... at least I thought I was! My user account says I'm an administrator and I'm the only user on this mac... any way to see what my user account rights are? I know netinfo, but I don't know how to interprate it?

Group differs on ./private/etc/authorization, should be 80, group is 0

What does this error indicate, i.e., what is it saying?
I continue to get this on my Disk Utility... I'll run repair permissions, and it will go away for awhile... but then, I'll notice it again, say, after a software update and repair of permissions.
What groups are 80 and 0?

Thanks!
Until I fixed this error using Disk Utility, I couldn't install a 3rd party software app. I didn't log in as root to do it either, just repaired permissions and the install "took" the second time. I'm a member of the admin group... at least I thought I was! My user account says I'm an administrator and I'm the only user on this mac... any way to see what my user account rights are? I know netinfo, but I don't know how to interprate it?

Private/etc/cups Permission

Almost every time I Repair Permission, it finds and repairs "Group differs on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, group is 26." What is that? Why does it happen? Thanks

Well what I've seen is that DiskUtility always finds some permissions somewhere to fix unless you are starting with a blank disk. There's a lot of data inside that machine that can jump settings for various reasons. I don't lose sleep over a few permission errors and subsequent fixes. And here's a freebe;http://localhost:631/ to manage your printers.

Terminal Error: Unable to read "/private/etc/cups/cups-files.conf" due to errors.

After finding out that my Kodak ESP C310 printer was no longer printing after installing OS X Yosemite, I tried entering these into the terminal to get the driver working again.
sudo sh -c 'echo "Sandboxing Relaxed" >> /etc/cups/cups-files.conf'
sudo launchctl stop org.cups.cupsd
Nothing happened the first time I tried it, so I tried it again with still no luck. Now within seconds of opening the terminal I get this message :
" /private/etc/cups/cups-files.conf"
It pops up every few seconds, so it is practically impossible for me to type anything into the terminal without it popping up right in the middle. I tried the fix from the other discussion on this issue, and that didn't work. also I'm noticing that my printer isn't even added under "printers and scanners" anymore. I tried to re-add it, but I cannot without a driver that functions with 10.10.1
Any suggestions on how I should deal with this?

The permissions and ownership on /private/etc/cups/cups-files.conf should be:
/bin/ls -leO@ /private/etc/cups/cups-files.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root _lp compressed 3297 Mar 8 2014 /private/etc/cups/cups-files.conf
See "man cups-files" for the format of the cups-files.conf file
The contents of the /private/etc/cups/cups-files.conf file should look like:
# "$Id: cups-files.conf.in 11203 2013-07-26 21:32:33Z msweet $"
# Sample file/directory/user/group configuration file for the CUPS scheduler.
# See "man cups-files.conf" for a complete description of this file.
# List of events that are considered fatal errors for the scheduler...
#FatalErrors config
# Do we call fsync() after writing configuration or status files?
#SyncOnClose No
# Default user and group for filters/backends/helper programs; this cannot be
# any user or group that resolves to ID 0 for security reasons...
#User _lp
#Group _lp
# Administrator user group, used to match @SYSTEM in cupsd.conf policy rules...
SystemGroup admin
SystemGroupAuthKey system.print.admin
# User that is substituted for unauthenticated (remote) root accesses...
#RemoteRoot remroot
# Do we allow file: device URIs other than to /dev/null?
#FileDevice No
# Permissions for configuration and log files...
#ConfigFilePerm 0644
#LogFilePerm 0644
# Location of the file logging all access to the scheduler; may be the name
# "syslog". If not an absolute path, the value of ServerRoot is used as the
# root directory. Also see the "AccessLogLevel" directive in cupsd.conf.
AccessLog /private/var/log/cups/access_log
# Location of cache files used by the scheduler...
#CacheDir /private/var/spool/cups/cache
# Location of data files used by the scheduler...
#DataDir /usr/share/cups
# Location of the static web content served by the scheduler...
#DocumentRoot /usr/share/doc/cups
# Location of the file logging all messages produced by the scheduler and any
# helper programs; may be the name "syslog". If not an absolute path, the value
# of ServerRoot is used as the root directory. Also see the "LogLevel"
# directive in cupsd.conf.
ErrorLog /private/var/log/cups/error_log
# Location of fonts used by older print filters...
#FontPath /usr/share/cups/fonts
# Location of LPD configuration
#LPDConfigFile launchd:///System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.cups.cups-lpd.plist
# Location of the file logging all pages printed by the scheduler and any
# helper programs; may be the name "syslog". If not an absolute path, the value
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# directive in cupsd.conf.
PageLog /private/var/log/cups/page_log
# Location of the file listing all of the local printers...
#Printcap /Library/Preferences/org.cups.printers.plist
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#PrintcapFormat bsd
#PrintcapFormat plist
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# Location of helper programs...
#ServerBin /usr/libexec/cups
# SSL/TLS certificate for the scheduler...
#ServerCertificate /Library/Keychains/System.keychain
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#StateDir /private/etc/cups
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#TempDir /private/var/spool/cups/tmp
# End of "$Id: cups-files.conf.in 11203 2013-07-26 21:32:33Z msweet $".

Missing file: /private/etc/cups/ppds.dat

Cannot open my printer's utility - Lexmark z23 - All was well, then we updated to 10.4.5.
I know this file is missing: /private/etc/cups/ppds.dat
Any thoughts on where I might access it would be appreciated, or, confirm for me I'm gonna have to slog thru all the packages on the original install cds to find it.... : - 0
Thank you!!!!
YES, I read archived threads and know all about Miguel; - )

Geez Greg - Thanx for your time but that response is
almost insulting - Try restarting? That's like number
one on the newbie hit parade dude, right along
starting up holding down the shift key or running
fsck -y. Thanks for trying.
And your response is supposed to make others want to reply?
Anyone else? Please. I'm starting to think I got
screwed from using this printer when I upgraded my OS.
A quick search indicates that Greg is correct that the file in question is built by cupsd as needed. Surprised? I'm not. You could have restarted your computer several times in the amount of time it took you to post your rant.
If you don't want to restart your computer, then just restart CUPS. If that doesn't work, reset the printing system from the Printer Setup Utility. You can also search and search through the installation disks. You won't find that file, however. CUPS gets installed as part of the Essentials.pkg. The ppds.dat file, however, is not a file that gets installed.
Back to your original post -- I don't see a connection that would lead to a conclusion that the missing ppds.dat file is causing your printer's utility not to open. Even when you restore the ppds.dat file, you may not be able to open the utility for some other reason.
Matt
Mac Mini; B&W G3/300

/private/etc/cups folder is missing

I am working tech support for a college and a faculty member currently working abroad called in with a problem that Microsoft Word for Mac would lock up everytime he tried to save or print a file. I remoted into his machine and I tried the usual suspects and was able to determine that nothing would print at all from any app, and in fact when I went to system preferences and tried to open the printers, it locked up system preferences. Digging deeper, I discovered that I was getting this message in console:
com.apple.launchd[1] (org.cups.cupsd) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
The error kept repeating. I researched and found this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2151368?start=0&tstart=0
Which led me to try these terminal commands:
sudo cp /etc/cups/cupsd.conf /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.old
sudo cp /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.default /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
I got an error in terminal that "No such file or directory existed"
So I checked and sure enough, inside of /private/etc/ there was no folder for cups. Its just gone. I assume that the folder being missing is the root of the problem, but I cant figure out how to get it back for him, especially considering that I am trying to assist him remotely. Any help or advice would be appreciated.

# Become root
sudo -s
cd /private/etc
# Make the tar archive in /Users/Shared
tar -cjvf /Users/Shared/cups.tar.bz2 cups
# Exit being the root user
exit
cd /Users/Shared
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tar -tvf /Users/Shared/cups.tar.bz2
drwxr-xr-x 0 root   _lp         0 May 6 17:33 cups/
dr-x--x--x 0 _lp    admin       0 May 7 18:05 cups/certs/
-rw-r--r-- 0 root   _lp      4524 Jan 20 2012 cups/cupsd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 0 root   _lp      4380 Dec 23 2011 cups/cupsd.conf.O
-rw-r--r-- 0 root   _lp      5978 May 13 2010 cups/cupsd.conf.bak
-rw-r--r-- 0 root   _lp      6091 Jul 6 2011 cups/cupsd.conf.default
drwxr-xr-x 0 root   _lp         0 May 13 2010 cups/interfaces/
drwxr-xr-x 0 root   _lp         0 Apr 30 10:10 cups/ppd/
-rw------- 0 root   _lp      1624 May 6 17:33 cups/printers.conf
-rw------- 0 root   _lp      1624 May 5 16:53 cups/printers.conf.O
-rw-r--r-- 0 root   _lp       172 May 13 2010 cups/snmp.conf
-rw-r--r-- 0 root   _lp     52273 Jan 13 06:43 cups/ppd/Brother_HL_5140_series.ppd
-rw-r--r-- 0 root   _lp   1072994 Apr 30 10:10 cups/ppd/HP_Photosmart_C4200_series.ppd
-rw-r--r-- 0 root   _lp   1072931 Apr 21 13:08 cups/ppd/HP_Photosmart_C4200_series.ppd.O
-r--r----- 0 root   admin      32 May 7 18:05 cups/certs/0

Terminal: unable to read "/private/etc/cups/cups-files.conf" due to errors

Terminal is giving me the message above every 10 seconds making it impossible to write any lines without the error message breaking up the line. Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue?

Back up all data.
Select
Shell ▹ New Command
from the Terminal menu bar. Uncheck the box marked
Run command inside a shell
if checked.
Copy and paste the following line into the text box that opens, then press return:
mkdir disabled_shell_files
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Your old shell initialization and history files will be saved in a directory named "disabled_shell_files" at the top level of your home directory. It's normal that some of these files will not exist, and therefore you will get some "no such file" errors.
Close the window, open a new one, and test.

Group differs

When I run disk permissions, I get Group differs on "Private/etc/cups" , should be 0, group is 26.
Repairing gives the same error. Is this a problem, How do I fix it. I am running latest updates.

All:
Let me try this again, since several people seemed confused by my first post.
*THE MESSAGE DOES NOT INDICATE A REAL PROBLEM.* Permission repair has generated this type of message for years - why, I do not know since they only confuse people.
*DO NOT*, I repeat, *DO NOT* attempt to use arcane UNIX commands to fix what is not a problem to start with. A trite phrase that has been around since the beginning of computing (or 50+ years, in my case) is +"If it is not broken, don't fix it."+
Barry
P.S. to crom - apparently, from your last couple of posts, you are learning........

Group differs on ... should be 80, group is 99.

Group differs on "+insert filename here+", should be 80, group is 99.
I get this sometimes while running disk utility. I don't think its a problem, but what does it mean. What are groups 80, 99, 0, etc. ?
Message was edited by: madking

nobody -2 nogroup -1
wheel 0 daemon 1
kmem 2 sys 3
tty 4 operator 5
mail 6 bin 7
procview 8 procmod 9
owner 10 everyone 12
group 16 staff 20
smmsp 25 _lp 26
_postfix 27 _postdrop 28
certusers 29 _keytabusers 30
utmp 45 authedusers 50
interactusers 51 netusers 52
consoleusers 53 _mcxalr 54
_pcastagent 55 _pcastserver 56
_serialnumberd 58 _devdocs 59
_sandbox 60 localaccounts 61
netaccounts 62 _mdnsresponder 65
_uucp 66 _ard 67
dialer 68 network 69
_www 70 _cvs 72
_svn 73 _mysql 74
_sshd 75 _qtss 76
_mailman 78 _appserverusr 79
admin 80 _appserveradm 81
_clamav 82 _amavisd 83
_jabber 84 _xgridcontroller 85
_xgridagent 86 _appowner 87
_windowserver 88 _spotlight 89
accessibility 90 _tokend 91
_securityagent 92 _calendar 93
_teamsserver 94 updatesharing 95
_installer 96 _atsserver 97
_lpadmin 98 _unknown 99
com.apple.sharepoint.group.1 101 _guest 201

How can I fix this permissions "Library/Printers-should be 80 group is 0. Permissions differ. And User differs on "private/var/db/displaypolicyd" should be 0; Group is 244?

How can I fix this on my 2014 iMac, please?
Verifying permissions for “Macintosh HD”Group differs on “Library/Printers/InstalledPrinters.plist”; should be 80; group is 0.Permissions differ on “Library/Printers/InstalledPrinters.plist”; should be -rw-rw-rw- ; they are -rw-r--r-- .User differs on “private/var/db/displaypolicyd”; should be 0; user is 244.Group differs on “private/var/db/displaypolicyd”; should be 0; group is 244.
I run the "fix" and it seemingly does, but if I verify permissions again later it returns.
Thank you!

It's not an error but an informative message that you can safely ignore. it's innocuous.

Help with this occurring problem group differs on Library should be 0 group is 80

Please can someone help me with the following problems when using disk utility.
Keep getting the same repeating errors after repairing.
Group differs on "Library:; should be 0; group is 80
Permissions differ on "Library"; should be drwxr-xr-x; they are drwxrwxr-t.
Group differs on :Library/Preferences:; should be 0; group is 80.
Permissions differ on "Library/Preferences"; should be drwxr-xr-x; they are drwxrwxr-x.

You can safely ignore it:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1448

Group differs on "Library/Printers/InstalledPrinters.plist"; should be 80; group is 0.

When running disk utility, repair permissions, this error message keeps coming up. I have had to repair permissions more than once for this. Why would my printer group change if I am not changing it? What is group 80 versus group 0?
Group differs on “Library/Printers/InstalledPrinters.plist”; should be 80; group is 0.
iMac mid-2011, Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.1 with latest updates

Yes, I keep getting the same thing, on Yosemite 10.10.1 , and it seems to happen multiple times, per up-time session .
Apparently, the group-id-number that is equivalent to "80" is actually named "admin", and the group-id-number that is equivalent to "0" is actually named "wheel", which is the super-user alter-ego of the user-id-number "0" ("root") .
This recurring "permissions" warning, and repair, isn't listed in Apple's "Disk Utility Permissions that you can Safely Ignore" (with an article modification-date of NOV 19, 2014):
Mac OS X: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore - Apple Support

Group differs on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, group is 26.

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