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MrPizzaFace
MrPizzaFace

Reputation: 8086

sudo chown -R $USER:admin /system

Somebody had me do the following command sudo chown -R $USER:admin /system which essentially has bricked my MacBook. I am able to log in only to safemode:

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Can someone please help out of this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1283

Answers (1)

Giacomo1968
Giacomo1968

Reputation: 26084

Somebody had me do the following command sudo chown -R $USER:admin /system which essentially has bricked my MacBook.

Someone told you to do sudo chown -R $USER:admin /system And you just did that? 100% nuts.

FWIW, it should be root:wheel; at least that is what I know from my local Mac OS X 10.9.3 setup.

If you are on Mac OS X 10.9 then I would recommend you reboot holding down the Option key and boot from the recovery partition.

Once in there launch the Disk Utility and have it repair permissions on your main system hard drive.

Upvotes: 2

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