Repair Permissions warning message

Running Repair Permissions on my start-up disc running OS X 10.6, I get the message:
"Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired."
Is this serious? Do I need to do anything about it?
Thanks for any help.
Philip

As long as the report ends up with 'Permissions repair complete' then, as far as permissions go, you are fine. You can ignore the various statements in the report:
Permissions you can ignore on 10.5 and 10.6:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448
Using 'should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r--' as an example, you will see the that the permissions are not changed, but the | indicates a different location. This is because an update to Leopard changed the location of a number of system components.
Poster rccharles has provided this description of what it all means:
drwxrwxrwx
d = directory
r = read
w = write
x = executeable program
drwxrwxrwx
| | |
| | all other users not in first two types
| |
| group
|
owner
a little more info
Before the user had read & write. A member of the group had read.
After, only the user had read & write.

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Can I upgrade to Snow Leopard without addressing the WARNING: items safely or do I need to seek professional help and clean up those issues before I upgrade? And what are those WARNING: lines trying to tell me anyway?
I truly appreciate any insight you may have to allow me to upgrade with confidence.

You can safely ignore those messages:
Permissions you can ignore on 10.5 and 10.6:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448?viewlocale=en_US
Using 'should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r--' as an example, you will see the that the permissions are not changed, but the | indicates a different location. This is because an update to Leopard changed the location of a number of system components.
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That's the punch-line! If it says that you are good to go!

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When repairing permissions she got this message:
*+Warning: SUID File "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARD Agent.tp/Contents/MacOS/ARD Agent" has been modified and will not be repaired.+*
Does anyone know what this means and if it could be the source of her problem? She is using OS 10.6.0 Snow Leopard, updated recently from OS 10.5 Leopard at an Apple Store. Thanks.

this message is harmless and should be ignored. everybody gets it.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306925

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Mid 2011 iMac running 10.5.7, when I repair permissions in Disk Utility I get this:
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I didn't paste it quite right, here is the correct message.
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To fix this open the terminal.
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I'm not sure what discussion forum to place this, but since upgrading to Leopard when I run Repairing Permisssions on my HD I get his message:
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Anyone know the cause or meaning? Thanks!

Hi
Loads of threads all over the forums, this is a issue known to Apple & will, probably, be fixed with an update. It refers to Apple Remote Desktop & is nothing to worry about (apparently).
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After Repairing Permissions, "Warning: SUID file. . ." So, is it a concern

Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
I don't what this means, nor even where to begin to find out. Thoughts.

Hi VALman, a list of repairable items are gone indeed. I used the OS on OCZ-V30GbSSD and the Home Folder from WD-1TbBC before by Leopard with this message then I login to a Guest Account change the Home Folder back to my OS drive with new UUID as well. Then fast user switching OK, new Finder window, run Maintenance software, shut down. Turn on, rename as previous and change back the Home Folder to the WD-Caviar. All this happened when I renamed the drive by adding new icon&name for "fun".
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Repair Permissions Warning

I always get the following message when I repair the permissions with disc utility:
Permissions differ on "private/var/spool/cups/cache/rss", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are drwxrwxr-x .
I find informations on the forums and in the Apple Support pages about SUID files, but not on those mentioned warnings...
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Ignore it. It just means the group has write permissions. On my machine the group is _lp, which Disk Utilitity also thinks is wrong (although personally I think it is correct and Disk Utilities' data base is wrong), and I believe the _lp group really ought to have write permissions to a cache folder. Mine does. All of which is perfectly irrelevant to all "regular" users anyway, since we do nothing involving cups. It is for certain network print server functions in a UNIX system. If you just have a printer and plug it into your computer to print, the folder in question will never be written to by anything at all.
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I have a current problem where every time I restart my MBP (2.6ghz, early 08) the desktop picture goes to a picture I used a few months back. I tried deleting a couple of the preference panes that relate to desktop to no avail. I ended up moving that picture from it's location in the pictures folder and then upon restart, the default starry picture was used instead of the current one I have selected. I did some poking around here and saw a mention of repairing permissions to help with that problem. So I did and I end up with some warnings that I am unsure of their meaning. Can anyone offer some insight into the entirety of the situation, desktop and the warnings?
repair log here.
http://gallery.me.com/audiofyl/100098/Picture-204_2/web.jpg

Audiofyl wrote:
I have a current problem where every time I restart my MBP (2.6ghz, early 08) the desktop picture goes to a picture I used a few months back.
I tried deleting a couple of the preference panes that relate to desktop
In general, I'd consider that to be a bad idea. The preference panes don't contain those settings, just the software that allows them to be manipulated.
Try trashing the file com.apple.desktop.plist in the folder <yourhome>/Library/Preferences .
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http://gallery.me.com/audiofyl/100098/Picture-204_2/web.jpg
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Repair Permissions Error

Greetings,
I have had numerous problems since upgrading to Snow Leopard.
I get this error when repairing permissions:
"Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired."
Thanks

Chuck Risher wrote:
Greetings,
I have had numerous problems since upgrading to Snow Leopard.
I get this error when repairing permissions:
"Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired."
Thanks
read here about permission repair messages you can safely ignore

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Hello,
when last time I ran Cocktail to repair permissions, a message popped up saying: >>unable to repair permissions, make sure " " is accessible and receipts are present in the /Library/Receipts folder<<
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Please don't post to multiple forums. It's confusing and inappropriate. Close this one and see my response to your other one.

Repair Permissions progress bar

Okay Im not the only one.
My wife and I Mac Mini's both display the same issue, however my MacBook Pro does not. All three computers have 10.6.7 installed.
The Mini's generally show 23-25 minutes with no progress bar indication, then after about 3-4 minutes it's repair permissions are complete. The MacBook Pro generally shows 8-10 minutes and the progress bar moves as it should, then after about 3-4 minutes it's repair permissions are complete.
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I cannot remember when the time estimates on an Apple progress bar were anywhere near accurate!
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10.5.1: Disk Repair Permissions and SUID's

In 10.5.0 I had 3 entries while repairing permissions:
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
and the 2 ACL found lines...
After 10.5.1 was installed...
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Frankly, I think there are few to any warnings that Repair Permissions throws that you should be worried about, EVER.
People think repairing permissions "repairs" things. It really doesn't "repair" anything. It CHECKS permissions against a set of files which indicate what they were when things were installed. If these permissions were changed in some way (sometimes, this was done INTENTIONALLY), repair permissions will throw errors or warnings, which can be benign.

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