I have changed the Everyone permissions to "no access" in MacintoshHD, when I restarted I can see only the white screen. The OS is not booting. I tried using the Disk Utility from the DVD, but no changes, it is still the same.
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I am guessing that is because I did something stupid.. i changed the "Sharing & Permissions" section in my Macintosh HD Get info window. To be more specific, I changed the Everyone's permission to "no access". I tried booting with the Mac OS install disc and doing the HD recovery from the Disc Utility but it didn't changed anything. In fact there is an error every time I am trying to do "Repair Disc Permissions", while the action "Repair Disc" is completed with no problems.
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I know you can change it by editing the plist, com.apple.backupd-auto.plist. However, I am unable to save it even if I do the following:
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LaunchDaemons $ sudo chown [my username] com.apple.backupd-auto.plist
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Of course, I changed it back to root and wheel, respectively. What did I miss?
This article, for instance, does not even mention the fact that root owns the plist!
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