[dopik]

I have just installed SETI for OS X and I have the following problem.

if I am logged under the administrator account, I have no problem.however, when I am a regular user, there is a problem when it connects to the server. it says can't open file wtemp.sah. I forgot what it says. I guess it is a privilege problem but I do not know how to do it.

Thanks for your help.

Donald

[reader50]

The admin account owns that file. Log in as Admin, find temp.sah in the finder, do File menu -> Show Info. Click the popup in the dialog from "General Information" to "Privileges". Go down to the lowest popup "Everybody else can" and change it to "Read & Write".

Close the Get Info dialog. That should do it.

[dopik]

when I make a search, it does not find the file wtemp.sah

However, there is a file called temp.sah. Everything is already set up for read and write.

It is in the folder SETI@home_Data and this one, I cannot change the privilege setup. I am logged under an administrator and the owner, group and everyone , I cannot change their privilege.

Does anyone know what to do??? Because the problem never happens when I am logged as administrative

Thanks.

Dopik

[reader50]

Search probably could not find the file because Seti didn't have permission to write it in the data folder. If so, the answer is to give everyone write permissions to that folder. But before you can change the permissions on that folder, you first have to own it.

Start up the Terminal. It's in Applications/Utilities. Type "su" followed by Return. It will ask for your root password (you are logging in as root, just in that terminal window). The root password will be the password you created when installing OS X on that partition. This is most likely your admin password, unless you've changed it since installing X.

Once it accepts you as root, type in "chown (your username) ". Note that there is a trailing space after your username. Now drag the closed SETI@home Data folder into this Terminal window and let go. A file path will be entered.

Click in the Terminal window again to make it active, and press Return. The folder will now be owned by you, and you should be able to change the permissions.

The actual command should have ended up looking something like this:
[localhost:~] reader50% su
Password:
[localhost:/Users/reader50] root# chown reader50 '/Volumes/K78/Library/Application Support/SETI@home_Data'

"chown" is the change owner command. Only root can change ownership, that is why you had to do this as root. You just gave yourself ownership of the SETI@home Data folder, which will allow you to change the permissions on that folder. Set them so everyone can read and write. If you get any further error messages, you may need to repeat this trick with various files inside the folder, then change their permissions to allow "everyone to read and write".

When you are done with the root Terminal window, close it. That window should not be left open, anyone could issue root commands through it.

[ 01-21-2002: Message edited by: reader50 ]

[dopik]

As you told me, I type su
then I typed my password and it answered me sorry.
So I guess, I do not type the correct password but I do not have remembered to have ever changed my administrator password. Do you have an idea of what I should do.

Thanks.

Dopik

[reader50]

The root account may have never been turned on. Go to this page and follow the instructions at the bottom titled "Enable the Root User".