I was following a tutorial on installing Homebrew and I changed the ownership of /usr/local/ to me. Now McAfee Security won't start This is the exact line I typed:
Code:
sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local
Then I tried to fix it with:
Code:
sudo chown -R root /usr/local
I still can't start mcafee. It say "McAfee Security software failed to launch. error Code: 1
I'm not sure who the original owner and group were. also in the process of installing Homebrew I changed permissions with
Does anyone know what I need to do to get Mcafee working again?
Here is what ls -l looks like for those directories
Code:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root staff 68 Jun 17 10:20 Cellar
drwxr-xr-x 6 root staff 204 Jun 16 23:58 Library
drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 340 Nov 16 2009 McAfee
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 1603 Jun 16 23:58 README.md
drwxrwxrwx 31 root staff 1054 Jun 16 23:59 bin
drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 272 Sep 23 2010 git
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Sep 12 2010 hermes
drwxrwxrwx 6 root wheel 204 May 2 20:57 include
drwxrwxrwx 23 root wheel 782 May 2 20:57 lib
drwxrwxrwx 4 root wheel 136 Nov 16 2009 man
drwxrwxr-x 3 root staff 102 Oct 7 2010 sbin
drwxrwxrwx 10 root wheel 340 Jun 16 23:58 share
Any advice is welcome
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I rebooted and McAfee starts up. I'm hoping that everything is the way it should be. I can't run a manual update, but that may be because its already up to date.
It was a long time ago, but I know it was my administrative account. I tried to find out from the install logs, but I must be looking in the wrong location.
---------- Post updated at 10:45 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:40 AM ----------
I just looked in the help file and it says "Prerequisites
You must have administrator rights to install McAfee Security."
---------- Post updated at 01:55 PM ---------- Previous update was at 10:45 AM ----------
I ran the McAfee repair utility (/usr/local/McAfee/repairMSC) Everything is working fine now
As a general rule, never change ownership of a system level directory, and definitely do not change that ownership recursively.
drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 272B Mar 8 15:58 local
The homebrew developers should get their hands slapped if they indeed require that /usr/local ownership be changed recursively. They have no idea what's in there, or the potential impact, apparently.
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