I have a user named 'tv' (OS X 10.11.5) and I have these files in /Users/tv/Library/LaunchAgents/
# ls -lsa /Users/tv/Library/LaunchAgents/
total 16
0 drwxr-xr-x 4 tv staff 136 Jun 24 20:46 .
0 drwx------@ 50 tv staff 1700 May 19 11:05 ..
8 -rw-r--r--@ 1 tv staff 487 Dec 24 2015 com.bittorrent.uTorrent.plist
8 -rw-r--r-- 1 tv staff 559 Jun 24 20:46 com.drzoidberg33.plexpy.plist
I get Path had bad ownership/permissions
when I try to load either file. I've rebooted, changed the group to wheel, tried to manually load them repeatedly, but I always get the same error. The permissions look exactly the same as on my normal user account:
$ ls -lsa Library/LaunchAgents/
total 8
0 drwxr-xr-x 8 lbutlr staff 272 Oct 8 2015 .
0 drwx------@ 63 lbutlr staff 2142 Apr 2 02:11 ..
8 -rw-r--r-- 1 lbutlr staff 452 Mar 30 2015 com.kreme.home.randsig.plist
$ launchctl load /Users/lbutlr/Library/LaunchAgents/com.kreme.home.randsig.plist
/Users/lbutlr/Library/LaunchAgents/com.kreme.home.randsig.plist: service already loaded`
This link is similar, but is dealing with root permissions inside the /Library folder
Best Answer
The issue turned out to be that the executable referenced in the ProgramArguments inside the plist was not executable. Doh!