I got hit by the weird group reassignment when I upgraded to Mavericks. In my case the group was macports
(!). I’ve seen one report from a user who got cloakproxy
after the 10.11 upgrade, so apparently the bug is still there.
For some reason the OS X upgrader sometimes picks a group and changes the PrimaryGroupID
to 20
. Here’s the confirm:
dscl . -read Groups/cloakproxy
dscl . -read Groups/staff
And the fix: