How to unbork a Time Machine Restore

I’ve restored my Mac Mini from Time Machine twice now, and both times, I had permissions issues. Since I forgot how I solved it last time and had to thrash around again, I thought it good to blog it here for the next time. (Provided I remember to check here)

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=557041

Based on this post, I finally remembered that I needed to run the following command:

chown -R username:username /Users/username

For some reason, the user account got restored with username:staff, which was breaking things.

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