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Wasn't this a separate utility in Mac OS X 10.1? I believe it was called "Repair Privileges". I think this article could mention that as a historical fact and perhaps link to OS X 10.1. 58.107.191.210 08:32, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Embed as inline citations[edit]

The following external links look more suitable to be embedded as inline citations. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 11:09, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Repairing permissions: What you need to know Macworld's Dan Frakes attempts to provide a thorough, balanced look at repairing permissions
Repairing Permissions is Useless Unsanity's Rosyna tries to educate mac users about repairing permissions.
‘Repair Permissions’ Is Not a Recommended Step When Applying System Updates John Gruber questions the practise of repairing permissions.
Seriously, ‘Repair Permissions’ Is Voodoo Repairing permissions is declared to be voodoo.
Troubleshooting permissions issues in Mac OS X Apple document on troubleshooting permissions issues
About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature Apple document on Disk Utility's repair disk permissions feature
Care and Feeding of Jaguar: OS X Drive Maintenance Arguments for repairing permissions regularly

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Permissions repair in El Capitan[edit]

There is no real reference to how permission repairs are conducted in El Capitan. There remain a number of situations in which it is appropriate to command a permission repair, even with the system integrity protection running.

The syntax for a repair (as before, there is no real point to running a 'verify' alone in any Mac OS X permissions-repair utility) is as follows: From a Terminal window, enter

sudo /usr/libexec/repair_packages --repair --standard-pkgs /

to perform permissions repair on the root. Instead of the last backslash, you can specify

-- volume PATH

(where you specify the full path to the volume involved) if you want to repair permissions on a particular device that has a bootable copy of OD X installed on it. e.g. if you are troubleshooting a system on a remote machine or you've booted from a recovery partition or device such as a USB stick.

The current description in the article itself appears to follow Apple propaganda in that 'no permissions repair is needed' and that the system will maintain itself properly with the designed-in utilities. That appears to be far from the truth in an interestingly large range of circumstances, and I think it is appropriate to describe the method that users can employ to run the permissions repair correctly. (Someone knowledgeable can compare the usual manpage for this, describe what the individual arguments do and why they are constructed as they are, etc.)

This particular syntax is reported from an article in MacObserver, but there are multiple places on the Web that provide it or a similar version. 2602:306:36CF:2950:589B:5D82:7002:1526 (talk) 02:14, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]