One issue I have heard about, involves the \/etc\/ folder permissions being set to an “bad” value…<\/p>\n
For example, if you set \/etc\/ to 755, Mac OS X will not allow a shell session (terminal) to be opened… \u00c2\u00a0It will report “The Administrator has set your shell to an illegal value<\/strong>“. \u00c2\u00a0If you try an sudo command, you will see an error (“sudo: can’t open \/private\/etc\/sudoers: Permission denied sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting<\/strong>“).<\/p>\n What’s the easiest way to resolve this?<\/p>\n If you are running 10.7, restart your system, and hold down the option key. \u00c2\u00a0This will bring up the boot device list, choose your recovery partition (“Recovery HD<\/strong>“). \u00c2\u00a0The “Mac OS X Utilities” menu will appear, highlight “Disk Utility<\/strong>“\u00c2\u00a0and hit Continue. \u00c2\u00a0 <\/strong>From the Disk Utilities left side bar, choose your hard drive (e.g. “Macintosh HD”). \u00c2\u00a0In the “First Aid” pane, click on “Repair Disk Permissions”.<\/p>\n Repair Disk Permissions should repair the permissions issue, and allow you access to the Terminal \/ Shell sessions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One issue I have heard about, involves the \/etc\/ folder permissions being set to an “bad” value… For example, if you set \/etc\/ to 755, Mac OS X will not allow a shell session (terminal) to be opened… \u00c2\u00a0It will report “The Administrator has set your shell to an illegal value“. \u00c2\u00a0If you try an […]<\/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":[5],"tags":[147,1831],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726"}],"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=6726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}