[X4U] OSX Server Permissions help

[Brett Conlon]

Hiya,

Thanks for the response.

Under OS9 I had set the Base Arts folder to:

Owner: BASE ARTS (group) with read/write
Group: CREATIVE with read only
Others: None

However under OSX Server I'm unable to save the BASEARTS group in 
Workgroup Manager as the owner because it says it doesn't recognise the 
user - I guess coz it's a Group not a User! This makes sense as in the 
Finder I don't have the base arts group to select from in the Owner 
pull-down menu either.

This is why I suggested in my email below that I was setting group to BASE 
ARTS with read/write and Others to read only.

How do other achieve this task?

I'm reading some of the links you gave also, thanks.

Cheers,

Crwxolds




Stroller <MacMonster at myrealbox.com>

Don't worry - it sounds like you are going about things in pretty much 
the right way.
And if you do find you can't get the permissions you want from the GUI, 
it's easy enough to fix things from the terminal.

The thing that I notice from your posting is that you're setting the 
permissions so that the group is BASE ARTS - to give CREATIVE read 
permissions you also have to give that to everyone. If you were to make 
BASE ARTS the owner, you could give CREATIVE group read permissions & 
no permissions to anyone else.

A quick Google for "Unix file permissions" might be in order here 
<http://tinyurl.com/6ffzd>.
Note that "execute permission on a directory means you can list the 
files in that directory" <http://tinyurl.com/5b2sl> - owner/group/other 
needs execute permissions on directories that they need to read from, 
even if you don't want them to be able to execute the contents.

Stroller.



On Feb 25, 2005, at 6:52 am, Brett Conlon wrote:

> Further to the note below, I have just discovered that if the owner of 
> the
> volume is set to Administrator (my login account name)rather than 
> "root"
> (whic is the default) and I save it then I'm able to press the "Copy"
> button to apply to enclosed items.
>
> However, I still don't know if I'm going about this the right way.... 
> <8-}
>
>> For example, I have a “Base Arts” folder (that houses all our 
>> templates)
>> and the group CREATIVE has read only permissions but the BASE ARTS 
>> EDITORS
>> group needs read/write access.
>>
>> When I’m inside Workgroup Manager do I set the group to BASE ARTS 
>> EDITORS
>> with read/write permissions then leave Others to Read Only or is 
>> there a
>> more appropriate way?
>>
>> Also, if I was to set this parent folder called “Base Arts” to Group: 
>> BASE
>>
>> ...
>> I’m concerned I’m gunna mess it up doing it this way but I have to be 
>> able
>> to change privileges to enclosed items otherwise the editors are not 
>> going
>> to have read/write access to the folders they need, right?
>>
>> Further to this I just discovered that our partition called “DESIGN 
>> FILE
>> SHARING” (where we do all of our shared work) is set to Group: 
>> CREATIVE,
>> read/write (as it was set in Workgroup Manager) but all the sub 
>> folders
>> are group: unknown , Read Only. There are hundreds of files/folders in
>> this volume that I need to be able to change all together to the right
>> setting.