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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: System error or Firefox error?
Date: 1 Oct 2016 21:07:09 GMT
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On 2016-10-01, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 2016-10-01, Paul Magnussen <magiconinc@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> My wife and I both have Administrator accounts on our MacBook Pro 
>> (running El Capitan); but when she's logged on and Firefox has an update 
>> that she tries to install, she gets the following message:
>>
>> "Unable to Update
>>
>> A recommended security and stability update is available, but you do not 
>> have the system permissions required to install it. Please contact tour 
>> system administrator, or try from an account that has permission to 
>> install software on this computer."
>>
>> There's no further information.
>>
>> Any ideas, please?
>>
>> Paul Magnussen
>
> To start, I'd check the ownership, group, and permissions of all of the
> files within the application package. One or more of them likely denies
> access to her user account or group.
>
> To quickly list all of the files with their owner, group, and permission
> settings, run this ls command:
>
> ls -lR /Applications/Firefox.app
>
> One quick way to list any files whose group is *not* admin, would be to
> run this find command:
>
> find /Applications/Firefox.app -not -group admin
>
> Post the results here if you need help understanding them.

It would also be helpful to know the output of the id command from her
account - do this in a terminal window:

su heraccountname (enter her password when prompted)
id

Paste the output in a post here.

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