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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Permission Reset? Post 302257583 by [MA]Flying_Meat on Wednesday 12th of November 2008 02:45:51 PM

11-12-2008

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The school should have wiped the machine so you could start fresh with your own setup (after acquiring the OS install disks).

Changing permissions would generally include at least a "chmod" command, and that is not in the list of commands you provided.

The link points to folks trying to reset their root password, something you should not do unless you want to wreck things really fast.

You can do as much damage as an admin user, but it is generally a bit more tedious, thereby giving you time to think about the possible problems you could make for yourself.

Probably the easiest thing for you to do would be create an admin account (if you have not done so already) and then delete the LimeWire application and its preference files.
Then download and install the LimeWire application from macupdate.com, or versiontracker.com, or whatever...

Otherwise, you can try looking at the man page for the chmod command:
man chmod

in the terminal.

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chmod

CHMOD(1)						      General Commands Manual							  CHMOD(1)

NAME

       chmod - change mode

SYNOPSIS

       chmod mode file ...

DESCRIPTION

       The  mode  of each named file is changed according to mode, which may be an octal number or a symbolic change to the existing mode.  A mode
       is an octal number constructed from the OR of the following modes.

       0400   read by owner

       0200   write by owner

       0100   execute (search in directory) by owner

       0070   read, write, execute (search) by group

       0007   read, write, execute (search) by others

       A symbolic mode has the form:

	      [who] op permission

       The who part is a combination of the letters u (for user's permissions), g (group) and o (other).  The letter a stands for ugo.	If who	is
       omitted, the default is a.

       Op  can be + to add permission to the file's mode, - to take away permission, and = to assign permission absolutely (all other bits will be
       reset).

       Permission is any combination of the letters r (read), w (write), x (execute), a (append only), and l (exclusive access).

       Only the owner of a file or the group leader of its group may change the file's mode.

SOURCE

       /sys/src/cmd/chmod.c

SEE ALSO

       ls(1), stat(2), stat(5)

																	  CHMOD(1)

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