the "everyone" group

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the "everyone" group

I was trying to create a shared directory which has read AND write permissions.
I found the everyone group, which the name implies, would have "everyone" in it, right ?

Well after setting up a folder to be group everyone and giving g rw permissions, I find that users other than the owner cannot create files or directories in the folder.

Does the everyone group not do what I think ?

Do I need to create a specific group ?

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G5 2.0GHz Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on May 7, 2006 4:15 PM

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Niel

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May 7, 2006 8:59 PM in response to quartersawn

Try using the staff group, or set the permissions for Others to Read & Write on that folder. The staff group contains all the accounts you've created on the machine.

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Soon Hooi

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May 14, 2006 12:41 PM in response to quartersawn

Just a note. You cannot create new groups in Mac OS X (client). This functions can only be carried out using Mac OS X Server.

Unless you access your Mac OS X (client) using command line and Terminal.

PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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hyphen

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May 14, 2006 3:13 PM in response to Soon Hooi

niutil -create / /groups/group_name

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May 17, 2006 7:45 PM in response to hyphen

niutil -create / /groups/group_name

When I do this step from Terminal within an administrator account, I get "could not create directory [group name]. Permission denied."

What's weird is that within NetInfo Manager, I can create a directory within the groups area (of course, this is insufficient, as I don't know what the contained property/value fields should be. I thought about duplicating another group and editing, but I'm guessing I need some unique values that I can't suss out).

I thought that maybe I needed to enable root and sudo root from the command line first, but it keeps giving me a wrong password message (even though it's not).

Any more tips? I'd really like to create a folder with full access for my wife and myself, but one my kid can't access. Is the only way to do this to create a group containing a subset of local users?

Mac OS X (10.4.6) using permissions for this volume

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Niel

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May 17, 2006 9:52 PM in response to Carsten Bruckner

What's weird is that within NetInfo Manager, I can create a directory within the groups area (of course, this is insufficient, as I don't know what the contained property/value fields should be. I thought about duplicating another group and editing, but I'm guessing I need some unique values that I can't suss out).

The only unique values you need are the group's name and gid. The group's name can be given any value which isn't in use by another group. The group's gid can be anything from 100 to 500 which isn't in use already; giving it a number outside this range may cause problems now or in the future.

Alternatively, you can use an ACL to set the permissions on the folder, but that takes more effort to set up than creating a new group or duplicating an existing one.

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