You do not have a choice about the use of permissions. Mac OS uses them. You may set them to be permissive. Look at the permissions on your home folder & enclosed files & folders. Verify that they are all the same.
to find out your current uid & gid, use the id command
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
mac $ id
uid=1000(mac) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff), 0(wheel), 81(appserveradm), 79(appserverusr), 80(admin)
mac $
This terminal command will tell you the permissions of all files in your home directory. It may be a very long listing!!! Change mac to your short name. The R causes all enclosed folders to be listed
mac $ ls -laR /Users/mac
total 489640
drwxr-xr-x 82 mac staff 2788 Sep 15 22:22 ./
drwxrwxr-t 25 root admin 850 Sep 30 20:31 ../
drwx------ 2 mac staff 68 Dec 31 2004 .AbiSuite/
drwxr-xr-x 11 mac staff 374 Sep 8 2004 .Arachnophilia/
-rw-r--r-- 1 mac staff 3 Jul 30 2003 .CFUserTextEncoding
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mac staff 24580 Oct 21 21:12 .DS_Store*
-rw-rw-rw- 1 mac staff 20480 Dec 23 2002 .FBCIndex
drwxrwxrwx 3 mac staff 102 Dec 23 2002 .FBCLockFolder/
... clipped ...
use control+c to quit the listing.
Should you get permission errors on the listing, you need to prefix the sudo command.
mac $ #The sudo command will ask for your administration password. No characters will appear when typing your password. Press return when done typing.
mac $ sudo ls -laR /users/mactotal 489648
drwxr-xr-x 82 mac staff 2788 Sep 15 22:22 .
drwxrwxr-t 25 root admin 850 Sep 30 20:31 ..
drwx------ 2 mac staff 68 Dec 31 2004 .AbiSuite
drwxr-xr-x 11 mac staff 374 Sep 8 2004 .Arachnophilia
-rw-r--r-- 1 mac staff 3 Jul 30 2003 .CFUserTextEncoding
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mac staff 24580 Oct 21 21:12 .DS_Store
-rw-rw-rw- 1 mac staff 20480 Dec 23 2002 .FBCIndex
drwxrwxrwx 3 mac staff 102 Dec 23 2002 .FBCLockFolder
You could use batchmod to change all permissions in your home folder. Your home folder is /Users/your
shortuser name. Its your uid. In my case mac
Perhaps you permissions got messed up when you migrated to Leopard. You need to verify that you have a consistent set of permissions in your home folder. Mac OS X uses Unix permissions & acl's.
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"BatChmod is a Cocoa utility for manipulating file and folder privileges in Mac OS X. It allows the manipulation of ownership as well as the privileges associated to the Owner, Group or others."
http://www.macchampion.com/arbysoft/Welcome.html
Robert
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Here is an overview of the terminal commands. Lets assume that your account has a short user name of mac.
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
#How to list all of your disks.
# The ls command is for
li
st
mac $ ls /Volumes/
Audio CD Macintosh-HD Spotless Tiger-ext
mac $
# Let's say your flash drive is named Spotless
# cd is change directory
mac $ cd /Volumes/Spotless
# pwd is print working directory
mac $ pwd
/Volumes/Spotless
mac $
# The ls command is for
li
st
# l is long
# F is type of file where / is directory
mac $ ls -lF
total 134704
-rw-r--r-- 1 mac staff 64560 Mar 3 2009 A-picture-of-Youpi-key.png
drwxr-xr-x 83 mac staff 2822 Nov 7 14:52 Applescript files/
drwxrwxrwx 12 mac staff 408 Dec 13 2008 Christmas Cards/
drwxr-xr-x 9 mac staff 306 Dec 21 17:39 Christmas Cards 2009/
... trimmed ...
What does all this mean?
drwxrwxrwx
d = directory
r = read
w = write
x = executeable program
drwxrwxrwx
| | |
| | all other users not in first two types
| |
| group
|
owner
# l is long
# a is all to show hidden files & folders
mac $ ls -lFa
total 134736
drwxr-xr-x 41 mac staff 1496 Dec 22 17:11 .
drwxrwxrwt 8 root admin 272 Dec 24 13:55 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 mac staff 15364 Dec 23 12:52 .DS_Store*
drwx------ 4 mac staff 136 Jan 22 2009 .Spotlight-V100
drwxrwxrwt 5 mac staff 170 Sep 14 16:36 .TemporaryItems
d-wx-wx-wx 4 mac staff 136 Dec 31 1969 .Trashes
-rw-r--r-- 1 mac staff 64560 Mar 3 2009 A-picture-of-Youpi-key.png
drwxr-xr-x 83 mac staff 2822 Nov 7 14:52 Applescript files
drwxrwxrwx 12 mac staff 408 Dec 13 2008 Christmas Cards
drwxr-xr-x 9 mac staff 306 Dec 21 17:39 Christmas Cards 2009
... trimmed ...
Message was edited by: rccharles
Message was edited by: rccharles
