Password question

[hendo55]

Since upgrading from Snow Leopard on my 13" macbook it asks for a password every time I delete a file

 

[Kaveman]

Some files it should ask for your Admin Password, before deleting them.

Do you have System Preferences > Parental Controls turned on?

In System Preferences > Users and Groups what is your User Account type? Admin, Standard???

 

[hendo55]

Parental Controls turned off
Users and Groups I am an admin user


Thanks Bruce

 

[Kaveman]

With TextEdit Make a new file, Type something, save to Desktop.

Delete that file, does it ask?

 

[Spawn_Dooley]

I have randomly seen this on my computer when I've attempted to trash a file I've copied from my ext HD to my desktop OR when I've tried to trash a file I've transferred from the Admin acct to my standard acct via the Shared Folder.

Sometimes I just enter the password and be done with it and other times I play around in the Sharing & Permissions section at the bottom of the Get Info window.

 

[hendo55]

With TextEdit Make a new file, Type something, save to Desktop.

Delete that file, does it ask?

Yes it does.

thanks for answering

Hendo

 

[Kaveman]

that's strange, it asks on a File you made in your User Space. Ok, lets check the file permissions on the Trash.
In Applications > Utilities > Terminal
Type this line then return
ls -alt

this will list all the files and folder in your Home folder, and their settings. The line you're interested in is the has .Trash, can you copy and paste that here?
here's an example:

drwx------ 2 kevin staff 68 27 Sep 17:54 .Trash

 

[hendo55]

Thanks for your assistance Kaveman,
here is the result of the ls command

drwx------ 431 root staff 14654 27 Sep 19:21 .Trash
drwxr--r--+ 36 brucehenderson staff 1224 27 Sep 19:21 Desktop
-rw------- 1 brucehenderson staff 1024 27 Sep 18:05 .rnd
-rw-r--r--@ 1 brucehenderson staff 24580 25 Sep 22:39 .DS_Store
drwxr--r--+ 45 brucehenderson staff 1530 25 Sep 17:08 Documents
drwxr--r--+ 93 brucehenderson staff 3162 25 Sep 17:07 Downloads
drwxrwxrwx+ 30 brucehenderson staff 1020 25 Sep 11:54 .
drwxr-xr-x@ 5 brucehenderson staff 170 20 Sep 09:13 Applications (Parallels)
drwxr-xr-x 4 brucehenderson staff 136 20 Sep 09:13 Applications
drwxr--r--+ 16 brucehenderson staff 544 14 Sep 22:05 Pictures
drwx------@ 54 brucehenderson staff 1836 9 Sep 09:19 Library
-rw------- 1 brucehenderson staff 994 23 Jul 20:21 .bash_history
drwxr-xr-x 6 brucehenderson staff 204 23 Jul 00:02 .Contenta ORF Converter
drwxr-xr-x 7 root admin 238 22 Jul 11:11 ..
drwxr--r--+ 41 brucehenderson staff 1394 11 Jun 23:14 Movies
drwxr-xr-x 3 brucehenderson staff 102 11 Jun 16:26 Applications copy
-rw-r--r--@ 1 brucehenderson staff 131772 24 May 22:04 BOOTCAMP
drwxr--r--+ 8 brucehenderson staff 272 8 Nov 2010 Music
-rw-r--r-- 1 brucehenderson staff 2095681 29 May 2010 DEIDENTIFIED_DEMO-DataSet-V2-9.zip
drwxr-xr-x 4 brucehenderson staff 136 17 Feb 2010 .parallels
-rw------- 1 brucehenderson staff 35 31 Oct 2009 .lesshst
drwxr-xr-x+ 6 brucehenderson staff 204 14 Sep 2009 Public

Bruce

 

[Kaveman]

Yes, your .Trash is set to root, let try and fix that with:
Utilities > Disk Utility
Select the Disk (the one with the same name as your startup drive) and click Repair Disk Permissions

Then try the make a Document and delete test again.

 

[hendo55]

have already done that and still have the same issue. I will try again just in case it works second time around.

Hendo

 

[hendo55]

Have just tried permissions repair again and get the following error at the end of he process in the history window.

Warning: SUID file “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent” has been modified and will not be repaired.

 

[Kaveman]

K, we'll use a bigger hammer;-)

In Applications > Utilities > Terminal
Type this line then return, then it will ask you for your Admin Password, it doesn't echo anything as you type it, so just keep typing.

sudo chown brucehenderson .Trash

 

[Kaveman]

Don't worry about the

Warning: SUID file “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent” has been modified and will not be repaired.

message just means you've done an update.

 

[hendo55]

Thanks Kaveman that did it.

your assistance was very much appreciated

hendo