[JHromadka]

After copying over some applications from my old PowerBook to my new one, the permissions are all wonky on my Applications folder. There are some folders that my account only has read permissions to, so I have to authenticate when installing new apps.

1. What are the correct user/group permissions on the Applications folder and all subfolders
2. What is the correct chmod command to recursively fix this using Terminal? I tried comparing the top level of my old and new machines and applying to enclosed items but it didn't work.

Thanks,

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by JHromadka:
After copying over some applications from my old PowerBook to my new one, the permissions are all wonky on my Applications folder. There are some folders that my account only has read permissions to, so I have to authenticate when installing new apps.

1. What are the correct user/group permissions on the Applications folder and all subfolders
2. What is the correct chmod command to recursively fix this using Terminal? I tried comparing the top level of my old and new machines and applying to enclosed items but it didn't work.

Thanks,

I had a problem on a system that I was messing around with user accounts on earlier this week and after some fiddling with permissions and owners/groups everything was gravy. As for your situation, you should make sure /Applications has owner root and group admin:

Code:
sudo chown root:admin /Applications

Next, change the permissions of the contents of /Applications. You should be ok to change the permissions to 755 on everything inside /Applications. Do this by running:

Code:
sudo chmod -R 755 /Applications

That command makes it so the owner of the applications inside /Applications can read/write/execute and everyone else can just read/execute. The -R means recursive (so that chmod will work on files/folders nested further down inside other folders, it's the Finder's "Apply to enclosed items," if you will).

That should do it.

[JHromadka]

Thanks! I ended up using 775 because I wanted users in the admin group to be able to copy files into /Applications.

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by JHromadka:
Thanks! I ended up using 775 because I wanted users in the admin group to be able to copy files into /Applications.

Awesome, way to take my idea and run with it!

[philzilla]

mine is 775 by default

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by philzilla:
mine is 775 by default

That makes more sense. Mine is set to 775 as well... Ooops.