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ajithunair

Q: Read and Write but No Delete permission

Dears

We have a Mavericks server running Xsan. There are 7 users. We would like to give read and write permission to all but don't want to give permission to delete any file except for the Administrator. Is there any way to set this up..? Please help.

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Ajith

Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Aug 27, 2014 11:33 PM

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  • by Blaidd Drwg,

    Blaidd Drwg Blaidd Drwg Sep 2, 2014 9:39 PM in response to ajithunair
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    Sep 2, 2014 9:39 PM in response to ajithunair

    Set a custom ACL which does not include the delete and delete_child permissions. Of course, even without delete permission, if a user has write access to files, they can always overwrite files with other data. So if you're trying to protect data, this doesn't work perfectly.