Comments on: Locked out of My Home Directory http://www.elharo.com/blog/mac/2006/04/15/locked-out-of-my-home-directory/ Ranting and Raving Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:15:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Elliotte Rusty Harold http://www.elharo.com/blog/mac/2006/04/15/locked-out-of-my-home-directory/#comment-1202 Elliotte Rusty Harold Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:46:24 +0000 http://www.elharo.com/blog/mac/2006/04/15/locked-out-of-my-home-directory/#comment-1202 The problem was indeed that the <code>uchg</code> flag was set. Lord only knows how that happened. The Finder's Get Info window was not able to unlock it though. I had to use <samp>$ chflags -noucgh elharo</samp> which did unlock it. Thanks for the tip! The problem was indeed that the uchg flag was set. Lord only knows how that happened. The Finder’s Get Info window was not able to unlock it though. I had to use $ chflags -noucgh elharo which did unlock it. Thanks for the tip!

]]> By: Andrew Thompson http://www.elharo.com/blog/mac/2006/04/15/locked-out-of-my-home-directory/#comment-1182 Andrew Thompson Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:58:11 +0000 http://www.elharo.com/blog/mac/2006/04/15/locked-out-of-my-home-directory/#comment-1182 Or could you somehow have acquired an ACL on the folder? Are they enabled on this volume? Or could you somehow have acquired an ACL on the folder?
Are they enabled on this volume?

]]> By: Greg http://www.elharo.com/blog/mac/2006/04/15/locked-out-of-my-home-directory/#comment-1171 Greg Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:52:01 +0000 http://www.elharo.com/blog/mac/2006/04/15/locked-out-of-my-home-directory/#comment-1171 One of the flags described for chflags(1) may be set, on the directory itself or a file. The flags are normally hidden in an ls -l listing. To reveal them, use ls -lo. If a flag is set, and its name starts with 'u', it's easy to solve: use the chflags command to remove the flag. If the flag is 'uchg', then you can turn it off in Finder's Get Info window: it's the "Locked" checkbox. If a flag is set, and its name starts with 's', like 'schg' or 'sappnd', it's a lot harder to fix. You'll have to reboot in single-user mode, remount file-systems as read/write, then navigate to the offender and apply 'chflags' to the file or dir. By coincidence, I was mucking around with these flags yesterday, to see their effect, and your symptoms sound just like what I was observing. One of the flags described for chflags(1) may be set, on the directory itself or a file.

The flags are normally hidden in an ls -l listing. To reveal them, use ls -lo.

If a flag is set, and its name starts with ‘u’, it’s easy to solve: use the chflags command to remove the flag. If the flag is ‘uchg’, then you can turn it off in Finder’s Get Info window: it’s the “Locked” checkbox.

If a flag is set, and its name starts with ’s’, like ’schg’ or ’sappnd’, it’s a lot harder to fix. You’ll have to reboot in single-user mode, remount file-systems as read/write, then navigate to the offender and apply ‘chflags’ to the file or dir.

By coincidence, I was mucking around with these flags yesterday, to see their effect, and your symptoms sound just like what I was observing.

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