I'm getting a permission denied when attempting to create or mount at /Volumes on my mac. I'm an admin and I can do both of those things with sudo, but I don't understand why I have to use sudo on this mac but not on other macs in my office.
/Volumes
> mkdir foo
mkdir: foo: Permission denied
My thoughts are to use chown/chmod but I'm hesitant to do so without asking first.
/Volumes
> ll
total 8
drwxr-xr-x@ 4 root admin 136B Apr 22 13:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 33 root wheel 1.2K Mar 30 22:23 ..
drwxr-xr-x@ 11 medialab staff 442B Apr 14 15:34 06b_SD_Video_BK
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1B Apr 18 10:48 Macintosh_HD -> /
We mount LTO tapes to this machine and can currently only do so by using sudo. This was not always the case and I don't know why sudo is suddenly being required.
How do I go about changing the permissions on /Volumes?
pkgutil --file-info /Volumes
will give you the information that you need to set the permissions on the/Volumes
directory – fd0 Apr 22 '16 at 19:23--file-info
was hanging in terminal with no output so I tried--file-info-plist
– Bleakley Apr 22 '16 at 19:39