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Turning off the Permissions check


Vertigo50
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I'm constantly trying different system files to try to get hardware working, and of course everytime I do I have to go to the terminal and reset the permissions and reboot, etc.

 

Is there any way to just turn off the permissions check for the whole system? In other words, if I swap out files, OS X won't give me error messages saying the file isn't valid and such?

 

I know it's a bit of a security risk, but frankly, I'd rather turn it off completely until I know I've got everything working, then maybe turn it back on later.

 

Is this even possible?

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Not the way you put it. Because you just don't change the permissions, but also change the OWNER and GROUP-Ownership of the files so that the system can load them (ie kext files) after rebooting. This is not an optional thing and it serves an important purpose.

 

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As long as it's not the partition where MacOSX resides, you can deactivate user permissions by right-clicking the icon of the partition in question, clicking "get info" in the popup window and selecting the option called "ignore ownership on this volume" (it's a tiny square at the bottom left corner of the Info Screen).

 

Hang ten,

 

hecker

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Hmmm, that won't help, because what I'm really trying to do is be able to try out different .kext files and such without having to go through the whole reset and reboot process.

 

It sounds like that's the only way, though. Thanks for the help.

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This is the quick and easy way to check/repair permissions (no one thought of this?):

 

Finder>Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility

 

Select the volume on the left. On the right pane, select Repair Disk Permissions under "First Aid"

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This is the quick and easy way to check/repair permissions (no one thought of this?):

 

I'm not sure if doing that would repair the kext files correctly by default. Are you sure it would set the user:group automatically to root:wheel and make the permissions 755?

 

hecker

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Well, it somehow worked for me when I updated my kexts. Maybe I was just lucky the at least 100 times I've done it?

I think you could be right.

 

@Vertigo50: you will still need to erase the Extensions.mkext and Extensions.kextcache for the new kexts to work. I don't think that "Repair Permissions" fixes that.

 

Just remember to always backup your stuff before changing the file systems :hysterical:

 

hecker

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