Sigh, Microsoft. I can confirm the report at bruned that the Microsoft Office 2008 installer sets the owner to user 502, which is the second user on your machine.
In this case, my test user. Nice. What a security hole.
This installer also mucks with other user ids, so be careful.
I ran repair permissions in Disk Utility and it didn’t fix anything.
So I fixed them in the Terminal, which is a pain:
- sudo chown -R root:admin /Library/Fonts/Microsoft
- sudo chown -R root:admin /Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/
- sudo chown -R root:admin /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2008/
The Finder doesn’t make it possible to change the owner of a file in Leopard, at least I have not figured it out.