{"id":2156,"date":"2009-12-28T09:19:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T13:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2009-12-28T09:19:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T13:19:43","slug":"warning-suid-file-has-been-modified-and-will-not-be-repaired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/warning-suid-file-has-been-modified-and-will-not-be-repaired\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning: SUID file &#8230;. has been modified and will not be repaired."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was using Disk Utility to do a &#8220;Verify Permission&#8221; and I got the following message:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Warning: SUID file &#8220;System\/Library\/CoreServices\/RemoteManagement\/ARDAgent.app\/Contents\/MacOS\/ARDAgent&#8221; has been modified and will not be repaired.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 18px; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 14px;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; clear: both; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">It&#8217;s a known issue, and actually a bogus message.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; clear: both; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">It has been around since Mac OS X 10.5, and while it has changed for Mac OS X 10.6, the issue still arises&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; clear: both; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8220;You can safely ignore this message. It is accurate, but not a cause for concern.&#8221; (Apple Support 2007-11-06 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Document No. 306925)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; clear: both; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><a style=\"font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #1086a4; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/TS1448\">http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/TS1448<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; clear: both; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Warning: SUID file &#8220;System\/Library\/CoreServices\/RemoteManagement\/ARDAgent.app\/Contents\/MacOS\/ARDAgent&#8221; has been modified and will not be repaired.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; clear: both; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Resolution You can safely ignore these messages. You can also usually ignore any &#8220;ACL found but not expected&#8230;&#8221; message. These messages can occur if you change permissions on a file or directory. These messages are accurate but are generally not a cause for concern.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: I was using Disk Utility to do a &#8220;Verify Permission&#8221; and I got the following message: Warning: SUID file &#8220;System\/Library\/CoreServices\/RemoteManagement\/ARDAgent.app\/Contents\/MacOS\/ARDAgent&#8221; has been modified and will not be repaired. It&#8217;s a known issue, and actually a bogus message. It has been around since Mac OS X 10.5, and while it has changed for Mac OS <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/warning-suid-file-has-been-modified-and-will-not-be-repaired\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,5,25],"tags":[207,141,147,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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