[X4U] Drive Permissions problem

[John Baltutis]

On 04/24/06, revDAVE <coolcat at hosting4days.com> wrote:
>
>  I have several hard drives.
>
>  All of the drives and enclosing folders have been set with the following
> permissions ...
>
>  owner = system
>  access = read and write
>
>  group = admin
>  access = read and write
>
>  others = read only
>
>  ignore ownership on this volume = unchecked
>
> -  for some reason one of my drives is not using permissions correctly. Even
> know I reset all the permissions ( and copy permissions to enclosed folders)
> for the drive as above several times -  it has the following problems ...
>
> -  every new folder I create uses a different permissions set up from what
> is listed above...
> -  if I tried to delete a folder on the drive - it says it will be deleted
> immediately - rather than putting it in the trash...
>
> -  this is just a dated Drive - there is no system on it.
> -  I ran disk utility on the drive -  repair disk - but it did not help.
>
> * Question: How can I fix this? What is going on? I sure would hate to
> reformat the drive...

AFAIK, that's normal behavior. All files/folders created by the logged in user
will display that user as the Owner: <user> w/R&W, Group: <user> w/R-only,  and
Others: R-only. See <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106712> for
starters, especially the Owner, Group, Others section. BTW, which OS?