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"SUID Warning" from Disk Utility - what does it mean?
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artlewis
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Dec 13, 2008, 05:15 PM
 
G5/dual 1.8 running 10.5.5 and having major problems with Safari for the last week.
Getting ready to do a routine backup, so I ran DiskWarrior (as startup), then Disk Utility from other hard drive in the G5 for permissions repair.
I got the following both times I ran Disk Utility ---
"Warning: SUID file "Sysyem/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/OwnerGroupTool" has been modified and will not be repaired.
I haven't seen that before. What does that mean? Does it need to be fixed? How do I go about fixing it?
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Dec 13, 2008, 06:03 PM
 
Repair Permissions just doesn't to set the setuid bit on a binary that has changed since the original installation. It was probably just modified by a software update. I wouldn't worry about it.

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Hal Itosis
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Dec 13, 2008, 09:39 PM
 
This is but one of several ways Leopard's permissions repair gets it wrong. (more >here<)

In your case (or, if anyone enjoys repairing permissions and wants it to report accurately
then), running the 10.5.5 Combo Update will probably get things back in sync. Basically...
some delta updates don't seem to be properly updating the info in /Library/Receipts/boms
so Disk Utility thinks there's a problem (when it shouldn't).
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Dec 13, 2008, 09:46 PM
 
Thanks.
     
   
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