Terminal/X11 permissions problems

I should begin by saying that I know NOTHING about unix or the terminal, so keep responses simple and/or easy to follow instructions.
I'm using a program called MELTS (OSX version and instructions at http://melts.ofm-research.org/macosx.html) and I am unable to get it to launch on my new intel 2.16 core 2 duo iMac. This program worked like butter on my G4 MDD with OSX 10.3 and 10.4 (different versions of MELTS required for each OS). After the initial installations according to the instructions, the program would launch X11 and pop up in a window without trouble, just by double clicking on it like any other app. This is not so with my new beasty. So what I have done so far is...
I placed the file inside my main hardrive and opened an X11 terminal. I attempt to launch the program by typing "/MELTS" and "./MELTS" this results in the following messages from X11
Homer:~ homer$ /MELTS
bash: /MELTS: Permission denied
Homer:~ homer$ ./MELTS
bash: ./MELTS: No such file or directory
Homer:~ homer$
I have already attempted to change the files permissions both through the terminal using "chmod 755MELTS", "chmod ugo+rwxMELTS" both with and without using the sudo trick (I barely understand what that really does, but I tried it anyway) and got the same results for each.
Homer:~ homer$ sudo chmod 755MELTS
Password:
usage: chmod [-fv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-a | +a | =a [# [ n]]] mode|entry file ...
Homer:~ homer$ chmod ugo+rwxMELTS
usage: chmod [-fv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-a | +a | =a [# [ n]]] mode|entry file ...
Homer:~ homer$
I've done all of the above, restarted the apps, restarted the computer, and tried to set the permissions in the "Get Info" window. After doing each of the former in every concivievable order and combination, I'm stuck.
Any ideas or suggestions? Anyone with an intel Mac out there who can successfully get the MELTS program to work on their machine?

Typing "./MELTS" only works if you are in the directory that contains MELTS at the time you type it. Before trying the ./MELTS commad, type "ls" to get a listing of files in the current working directory (the directory you are in). If you don't see MELTS listed, you aren't in the correct directory. ("directory" is the unix word for "Folder")
When you open a new terminal window in X11, you are normally in your "home" directory, which is not normally where applications get put. You have to find out where the installer puts MELTS. If you can double-click on it, you know where it is. Perhaps the Applications folder? If so, then type "cd /Applications", then do the "./MELTS" command.
For the chmod commands, it looks like you need a space before the "MELTS", i.e., "chmod ugo+rwx MELTS" not "chmod ugo+rwxMELTS". That's what all that "usage" stuff is about. But it is doubtful that this is the fix, anyway. The permission denied messages is because you told it the wrong thing, not because MELTS has the wrong permissions.
Do the MELTS people say that it has been updated for the intel Macs? Are you downloading a pre-compiled binary, or installing from source code? (Probably a binary)

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Type: "/Users" (without quotes) and click Go.
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Hello all. I initially had a permissions problem with files on my computer after upgrading from Tiger to Leopard last week. I thought I had the problem solved with the doubleteam effort of RodneyW. and V.K. The topic is here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1510598&tstart=0
Now all the folders in my Documents and Pictures are fully accessible to me.
A bit of background: when I log into the mac, I am always logged in as an administrator with my username.
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*Tax program* myusername(me)/ read & write
admin / read
everyone / read
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(unknown) / read
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Firefox myusername(me) /read & write
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*I don't see "applications" there.. could that have omitted the permissions fix?*
Thanks for your attention.
Message was edited by: fayjon99

I think I may have done something not so smart... because I don't know Terminal very well. I did not know that I had to wait for the prompt:
*Macintosh:~ myusername$*
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and got the reply:
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there was a little grey box directly underneath it. So I put the rest of the commands in (pressing enter after each line, which gave me a little grey box on the next line).
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Did I do something stupid?
Anyway, I redid it, but this time waited until the prompt with my username popped up and this is the result:
*Last login: Thu May 8 16:50:05 on ttys000*
*Macintosh:~ myusername$ sudo chmod -R - N /Applications*
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*Macintosh:~ myusername$ sudo chown -R root:admin /Applications*
*Macintosh:~ myusername$ sudo chmod -R g=rw,+X /Applications*
*Macintosh:~ myusername$*
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You can change permissions for all items in a folder by doing the following:
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Since upgrading the Mavericks I constantly have file permissions problems when I tranfer files between computer. Let me see if I can clarify the problem procedurally.
1. I have a shared directory that I set to Read&Write privileges for Admin, (me), and Everyone.
2. I clicked the cog to apply the changes to all the enclosed items. Perfect... everything contained within the directory was changed.
3. I went to my other Maverics computer and connected to this shared directory using SMB, AFP, connect to server command-k, and using the shared feature on the finder window, which asked me to authenticate when I make the connection. I logged in with the admin account to make sure I absolutely had full privileges.
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see Topic: Office (2004 & v.X) can't save to AFP volumes properly
Apple wants you to enable ACLs even if your not using them. See my posting dated April 14

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Occasionally, I need to send files to the Leopard Mac from my Snow Leopard machine, so I connect to the other Mac's Shared folder, navigate to the Drop Box, and pop the file in.
Looking at the file on the other machine, it comes through as Read Only, ie. if I Get Info on it, it says 'you have custom access' and lists users as Nobody: Read Only; (Unknown): Read Only and Everybody: Read Only. These permission remain like this once the file is copied or moved out of the Drop Box.
I've had a look at the Sharing Prefs on both machines and they are set up to have the admin account as Read and Write and Everyone as Read Only - the Drop box is then set to have the admin account as Read and write and Everyone as Write Only (Drop Box).
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Can someone help me fix this.
Thanks

Easybourne wrote:
Thanks for the tip. Once the other user vacated their Mac last night I ran the commands but...
Unfortunately, I still seem to be having issues with files being 'read only' on the Leopard machine. If I send a file from the Snow Leopard Mac to the Leopard Mac's drop box, it shows up with what looks like read/write access for 'nobody', 'everyone' and 'unknown user', but if I open the file, work on it and try to save via an app's save dialog, it says the file is Read-only. In the words of t'internet: W T F?
I ran your commands on the Snow Leopard machine too, and curiously, if I send a file from the Leopard machine to the Snow's Drop box, I CAN read and write to the file.
One thing that troubles me is that My User name is now listed TWICE in the list of permissions I get (My User Name): Custom Access and (My User Name) Read/Write. That seems odd.
no, that's normal. this happens because of the ACLs.
Something similar is happening on the Leopard machine too.
I created a fresh user account on my Snow Leopard Machine to see what the default permissions should be and I get other entries in the permissions list that aren't present on either of the two Machine's main user accounts. Users such as 'Staff', for example. Frankly, I'm lost.
I've read somewhere that there could be permissions problems on machines where user accounts have been upgraded from Tiger to Leopard as is the case with one of the machines in question.
yes, that could be. we can fix that if necessary.
I've also read that I can do a complete reset of ACLs by using the Reset Password utility on the Leopard installer DVD. Would this be worth a go, and could it cause more problems if it doesn't work?
yes, you can try resettings ACLs on the leopard machine using the leopard install disk. however, the acl reset utility on the leopard disk is somewhat buggy and sets wrong groups on everything it touches. therefore after you are done with it, reboot normally and run the following terminal command
sudo chown -R `id -un`:`id -gn` ~
you'll have to enter your admin password (which you won't see). that's normal.
If you can bear it, could you please help me some more. Thanks very much.
Message was edited by: Easybourne

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Hi all!
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When I used migration assistant, I had already created the same user name on the new MBP. Now that I've read many posts in this forum, I realize I should never have created a user on the new MBP, prior to using migration assistant. Anyway, having trouble with duplicate account names, I believe I reformatted the drive and used the drag and drop method from the old MBP to the new (I can't honestly remember, but I'm pretty sure that's the method I chose). I still created the same user name on both, so perhaps that wasn't a great idea.
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So, my question is what is the best way to proceed? It seems apparent that I have to delete a user or figure out how to repair all permissions at once, since I have found files and repaired a few with the one-at-a-time method. Obviously this is time consuming and I don't have that kind of time.
Should I delete the username and move things to a new username? If so, what are the best steps to prevent any permissions problems? Or is there a way to repair all file permissions through a command in the terminal?
I can't honestly say I never had any permission problems with the 2008 MBP before, so if by chance there were permisions problems, or any other user related problems, would they have been introduced to this new MBP?
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EM

emerson MEDIA wrote:
About make a copy of /Users/paisleye into /Users/paislWhy am I doing that? Just for backup? Through the remainder of your post, it sounded as if I would only be accessing /Users/paisleye. Did I mis-read something?
Exactly -- just for backup. You may notice I'm a little paranoid -- if you have a Time Machine backup, and a SuperDuper/CarbonCopyCloner bootable clone on an external disk, AND a copy in /Users/paisl -- then you've got 3 backups before you start. :-) And when you are done you will have the original of /Users/paisleye in /Users/paisl and the original of /Users/test will still be in /Users/test.
What should happen with the ordering is this:
-- if a file is in /Users/test but not in /Users/paisleye, then it will copy over into /Users/paisleye with it's current ownership and permissions, which seem to be right.
-- if a file is in /Users/paisleye but not in /Users/test, then the copy isn't going to fix anything, but it isn't going to hurt anything more, either. The step where you set ownership of everything in /Users/paisleye to test:staff might just fix all of those problems.
-- if a file is in /Users/paisleye AND /Users/test, then if the ownership/permissions are right on one and wrong on the other it's probably /Users/test that's good. The copy (the long complicated tar command) will copy the /Users/test version and it's permissions/ownership overtop the /Users/paisleye version. If that's not right, there is a backup in /Users/paisl, and on the TimeMachine, and on the clone.
What's likely is that you are going to have the occasional weird thing happen with some stray file for months/years. You can always go back and use chown and/or chmod on an individual file to fix it. (The -R is the "recursive" flag to do a directory and everything underneath. Leave it out, and it just does one file at a time.)
I actually ended up with three different accounts on my machine that belong to "me" and had to do this. (I bought the machine with free Parallels installed, and MacMall created an account called "user" to install it and I had to clean that up when I got it.) This is not a terrible thing. One thing that I would recommend if you get it all done and cleaned up and you are happy -- keep the test account, and keep it as an Administrator; then turn off Administrator on the paisleye account. Then every time you need to do something Administrator, just give the test username/password. Every so often you will get software that will refuse to install from a non-priv'd account (looking at you adobe!) so just turn on Fast User Switching and log into the test account and install from there. It just a lot safer if you are not logged in all of the time with privs...
And this unix stuff isn't hard to get the hang of. If you half remember something, you can google it and find oodles of excellent documentation.

Permissions problem - I have two "everyone"'s

I'm getting the "you don't have access" warnings when trying to save/move files. It's intermittent and seems to affect files I copied from an older Mac to my MB Pro running 10.6.3. When I check the Sharing & Permissions the files have the following:
everyone: Custom
(Me): Read & Write
staff: Read only
everyone: Read only
I've tried some of the Terminal scripts that supposedly change all permissions in a given user's directory to allow the user full access. No luck. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Ron

Log in to an admin account and run this command in Terminal (assuming the problem account has short name "ron"):
sudo chmod -RN /Users/ron
Then boot up from your Leopard DVD. Choose Reset Password from the Utilities menu. Then choose "Repair home folder permissions" and select the problem account's home folder.

My iMac 8.1 was slowing down and had permissions problems. I backed everything up, and then re-installed. Now all I get is a black screen. Power+D gives me a hardware error message: HDD-1336. Help!

My iMac 8.1 (10.6.8 ) was slowing down and had recurrent permissions problems, mostly with Java. I backed everything up, and then re-installed from time machine. Now all I get is a black screen which says I need to reboot. Power+D gives me a hardware error message: 4 MOT/1/40000003: HDD-1336 or HDD-1327. When I reboot from the OSX CD and start disc utilities everything checks out OK. When I reload 10.5.2 from the OSX CD everything seems to work OK and no more permissions problems. But then I loose all my email and safari stuff. Anyone have any ideas short of going back to my old PC?

DonM. wrote:
Hi
Thanks for the help. No point in fooling around with it any more. Will I be able to use it as a monitor if I get a mimi mac?
Cheers. Don
No unfortunatley it's too old, you are referring to Target Display Mode which became avialble in 2009, your 2008 needs to have the HD replaced. I'd still do that if everything else is OK or you can simply buy a new MM and display or even a new iMac or an Apple refurbished iMac to save money.

Disk Permissions Problem on External HD Accessed Wirelessly

Hello,
I recently purchased a LaCinema Connect MiniHD and have been using it with a Western Digital 750Gb drive (formatted Mac OS Case Sensitive, non-journaled). I also recently bought a D-Link DWA-125 wifi dongle to use with the LaCinema.
I can access and read/write to the drive without problem when it connected via USB to my computer or to my wife's laptop. However, when I try to trasnfer to it wirelessly over the network (i.e. when the drive is connected to the LaCinema which, in turn, is on the network) I receive error messages when I attempt to transfer files to certain folders (including the "root" folder). What is interesting is that the folders that I can transfer to appear to be ones that were created on my old work computer, with an earlier OS version (definitely not Snow Leopard).
I suspect that I have some sort of permissions problem, but "Repair Permissions" is not available to me for this drive in Disk Utility.
I have plugged in the drive into my computer and have reset the permissions so that the "owner", "staff", and "everyone" are able to read and write for all folders and sub-folders, but it has not solved the problem.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Graeme.

Eric,
I, too, apologize for the delay in posting. I have been away from the discussions for a rather extended period.
Well, any NTFS formatted volume will only be accessible to you as read only. No, this is not something new, but has always been the case. To make matters worse, I have heard that Windows no longer provides any way to create a FAT-32 volume; one must use OS X to format the volume or use a third-party application in Windows. This information may be incorrect, but I wouldn't be surprised if it is true (we're talking about Microsoft, here).
If you can copy any data on this drive to some other location, then use Disk Utility to format it as FAT-32, the data can then be copied back and it can be used to transport the data cross-platform, with read/write access on both ends. Is this a possibility for you?
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