How to Remove ACL's when permission repair reports 'not expected'

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	How to Remove ACL's when permission repair reports 'not expected'

Solution To fix this some chmod commands need to be executed in the terminal.

Essentially open up a terminal and do the following:

cd /
ls -le (list directories with extended information ACL's listed as sub items under each directory)

look at the Applications and Library folders in the listing and you should see they have specific ACLs. On one of my machines the Applications folder had 2 and the Library had one. On the other both had just one.

to remove these ACLs do the following:

sudo chmod -a# 0 Applications (removes ACL 0 from Applications)
sudo chmod -a# 0 Library (removes ACL 0 from Library)

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17 Nov 2008 01:37 PM