Default Group Ownership and Permissions

Well I followed your instruction in the second post:

Then drag the folder into the Terminal window and press return again.

That was for the when I had included the line break at the end of each line. I didn't include the line break in my second post.

Just to be sure do I have to understand that the proper way to do it is:

Then log in to an admin account and open Terminal. Paste in all of this and the press the space bar:

sudo chmod -R +a "accountinggroup allow delete,chown,list,search,add_file,add_subdirectory,delete_child,file_inherit,di rectory_inherit"

Then press return.

Sorry I forgot something:

Then log in to an admin account and open Terminal. Paste in all of this and the press the space bar, after drag the share folder on the Terminal:

sudo chmod -R +a "accountinggroup allow delete,chown,list,search,add_file,add_subdirectory,delete_child,file_inherit,di rectory_inherit"

Then press return.

Correct. Don't forget to enter the admin password after pressing return.

I just wanted to say a big thanks to Király. I was suffereing the same problem, attempting to work on the same set of files from two different users on the same computer, and his solution worked perfectly.

I moded his text slightly as the user group I wanted is named something different. I found that one can copy and paste his text into textedit to make such a change, and then copy it from there. If you change the text below, substituting the word usergroupname with the name of your own, it should work fine.

sudo chmod -R +a "usergroupname allow delete,chown,list,search,add_file,add_subdirectory,delete_child,file_inherit,di rectory_inherit"

Also the order is:

Launch terminal

Paste modded text from above

Hit the space key once

Drag folder you want to change the permissions onto the terminal window

Hit return

When terminal asks for your admin password, enter it and hit return

That should do the trick, at least it did for me.

Hi Király,

thanks for your great solution! I was looking exacly for that.

However, it does not solve the problem if files are beeing moved (or dragged and dropped) since there seems to be no inheritance applied when a file is moved into the project folder. Also if you move a file from the project folder into a user account it's permissions stay the same (which means that if I want a file not to be shared anymore it does not inherit the permissions of my personal user account if I copy it into my home directory).

Can you think of a way to solve this (other than making a copy and deleting the original file)?

Hi cars--10

Unfortunately that's just the way it is. Making a copy and deleting the original is the only way to ensure ACL inheritance. Moving files from elsewhere on the same volume won't result in the ACL to be properly inherited.

Hi Király,

thanks. I think that permission inheritance on moving files could be added to the feature set of ACL since it is already a POSIX-Extension.

Best regards

Király, you have eased my pain considerably today and for that I thank you. This thread is really great for anyone trying to understand the absolute clusterfudge that is posix/acl permissions. TinkerTool System is a great tool for anyone who wants to stay out of the command line and has relatively simple demands.