[CUBE] Permissions and OSX

[Gnarlodious]

Holy Hogwarts! Is that THE Keith Rowland?
You are a celebrity! This is great.

Rod, you don't mention if you are copying files to a userfolder or the boot
folder. Keith suggests the files are in ~homefolder. If so, use Terminal.
The GUI utility in Info for permissions is real spotty and usually fails at
low level folders.

It depends on what OS you are using, but in Terminal, I would say:

chown -R  userName:admin «drop folder»

This sets owner of all files and folders on all levels (-R is Recursive) to
"userName" and group to "admin". This is fast and effective, but will also
apply these permissions to Public folder which might be a special case.

Maybe you can give us more details. If you need to automate the process I
can whip up an Applescript for the task.

To see who owns what type:
ls -lR  «drop folder»

You should see a long list of all files in all folders recursively showing
owner and group. I believe in 10.3 a daemon sets all copied files to current
user but you don't mention what OS you are running.

-- Gnarlie
http://www.Gnarlodious.com/Cogent/Cogent.html


Entity Keith Rowland spoke thus:

> You will have to log in as ROOT user first. You'll need to enable root
> access, that is done with the utility "NetInfo Manager" in the
> Applications Utilities folder. Once launched go to menu Security and
> then select Enable Root User. Set the password, don't forget it. Then
> logout and back in as user root by clicking the OTHER user and enter
> user name "root" and the password you selected.
> 
> Using Finder drill down to your real User Home folder.
> Click once on whatever directory you need to change ownership of.
> Perform a "Get Into" on the directory you want to change
> Click down the Ownership and Permissions Tab.
> Click down the Details.
> Unlock the Owner if needed and change the user.
> Click the Apply to Enclosed Items button.
> 
> Log out and back in as normal user.
> 
> 
> On Feb 4, 2004, at 3:28 PM, Eagle wrote:
> 
>>> 
>>> find /full/path/to/copied/files -user foo -print -exec chown bar {}
>>> \;
>>> 
>