How to clean up permissions Mac Server issue

The easiest (and usually the quickest) way to clean up you permissions is to use the chmod command from Terminal. If your ACLs are multiplying uncontrollably (please not that certain versions of Office for Windows used to cause this) you might want to quickly remove all ACLs and then start over. To do this, follow these steps:

1: Stop all file services to ensure that no one is altering data while you are working on it.

2: Remove all ACLs using this command (replace with actual path to data):

sudo chmod -R -N /path/to/your/share

This will remove all ACLs from all files and folders in /path/to/your/share and recurse to everything in the folder.

Now, if you think your POSIX permissions are out of whack, you can also reset this with two handle commands. To reset all directories to standard umask, use:

sudo find /path/to/your/share -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

To reset all files to standard umask, use:

sudo find /path/to/your/share -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Note: Your permissions model may be more restrictive and some workflows rely on limiting via POSIX. If so, these commands make not be what you want.

And there you have it. The above three commands can remove all ACLs and set all folders to 755 (drwxr-xr-x) and all files to 644 (-rw-r--r--).

Once you reset the data, go back to Server.app > Sharing or Server.app > Server > Storage and assign your permissions.

Reid

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