no "sharing and permissions" avialable

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no "sharing and permissions" avialable

All of a sudden I cannot access permissions on any drive but the main MacHD. I have searched for answers but cannot find any. The disk utility's permissions are greyed out, and there is no "sharing and permission" access in the "get info" window. Everything works except the permissions.

I discovered this when my VM stopped recognizing ISO's and then my mac side would not mount them either. The only drive that I can access permissions on is the Macintosh HD.

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), null

Posted on Feb 26, 2018 11:08 AM

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Answer 1

Kappy

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Feb 26, 2018 11:33 AM in response to Trebor09

The entry at the top is rohupo (Me) with r/w privileges. That should not appear on a startup volume. It is a security risk. Anyone knowing your password has unlimited privileges on the entire drive. Open the little lock icon, select that entry, then click on the Delete [-] button below the list.

I have no idea about your reported problem.

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Answer 2

Kappy

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Feb 26, 2018 11:14 AM in response to Trebor09

You cannot change Windows permissions from OS X. What you posted is correct except that the top entry on Macintosh HD should not be there.

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Trebor09 Author

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Feb 26, 2018 11:23 AM in response to Kappy

you say this, but until yesterday I could. What do you mean about the "top entry"? And why all of a sudden I can't mount iso's in either mac or VM windows?

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