OS 10.5 - Changed system hdd permissions, can't boot

dcghile · dcghile #1 (**permalink**)

06-09-2009, 03:27 PM

That pretty much says it. I was trying to restrict access to an acct that I ssh into and realized that the external drives could be accessed. I was logged in as that user but did not have root privileges so I had to enter my user/pass in order to make the changes. Then, I changed the permissions on the System HDD to admin and all to "drop box only". At that point there was a little red circle lower right of the HDD icon and I could not reboot from that acct. I killed osx with the power button on a power mac and rebooted. Grey screen and no boot. Is there hope?

chscag · chscag #2 (**permalink**)

06-09-2009, 04:25 PM

Have you tried booting with your original install media? You should be able to boot the system that way and then undo or repair the permissions.

Regards.

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dcghile #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 02, 2007 Posts: 16	06-09-2009, 03:27 PM That pretty much says it. I was trying to restrict access to an acct that I ssh into and realized that the external drives could be accessed. I was logged in as that user but did not have root privileges so I had to enter my user/pass in order to make the changes. Then, I changed the permissions on the System HDD to admin and all to "drop box only". At that point there was a little red circle lower right of the HDD icon and I could not reboot from that acct. I killed osx with the power button on a power mac and rebooted. Grey screen and no boot. Is there hope?
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chscag #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 23, 2008 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 31,998 Mac Specs: 21.5" iMac 2.5 GHz i5, iPad 3rd Gen., 3 iPods	06-09-2009, 04:25 PM Have you tried booting with your original install media? You should be able to boot the system that way and then undo or repair the permissions. Regards.
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