What does this message mean?

[GeneL]

I just repaired my disk permissions with Disk Utility.

The first thing I saw after the process began was this:

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

This sounded serious to me and I have no idea of its importance.

Can anyone explain this warning and what, if anything, I need to do about it?

Thanks in advance.

[GGD]

Mac OS X: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore

http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1448

[GeneL]

Thanks GGD.

I was hoping that there would be something to fix and that it would take care of all the glitches that I've encountered previously and all the ones in the future.

I'm such a dreamer. :wiggle:

[MikeF]

That's a boatload of messages to ignore -- you think they could fix it to not report those...

Reminds me of a project I worked on 30 years ago -- the hardware diagnostics didn't function properly because the signal processing hardware was changed and the project manager didn't want to spend the effort to correct the software diagnostics. If you got a specific known expected failure code it meant everything was OK. Any other failure or a pass meant there was a hardware problem. The military customer was not impressed.

[jdc]

Permissions repair = rebuild your desktop of System 8

Does nothing...

[Black]

jdc wrote:
Permissions repair = rebuild your desktop of System 8

Does nothing...

Rebuilding the desktop fixed the generic icon problem.

[OWC Jamie]

GeneL wrote:
I just repaired my disk permissions with Disk Utility.

The first thing I saw after the process began was this:

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

sometimes modifications is a good thing