tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post5443777689204883030..comments2024-02-15T13:20:14.813-06:00Comments on Gordon's Notes: Is there a club for people who hate OS X permissions?JGFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14580785981874040314noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-12560584979438087692012-01-03T12:00:23.117-06:002012-01-03T12:00:23.117-06:00I HATE FILE PERMISSIONS! This new scheme has cost...I HATE FILE PERMISSIONS! This new scheme has cost me tons of money and hours, having to go in and change every single file for all of my client websites!!! <br /><br />HOURS AND HOURS!!!! <br /><br />HORRIBlE!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-47458662550125932572010-02-22T02:09:16.061-06:002010-02-22T02:09:16.061-06:00FRUSTRATED!!!!
Set up a share on a Firewire attac...FRUSTRATED!!!!<br /><br />Set up a share on a Firewire attached drive on OSX Snow Kitty (desktop, not client) - used permissions to grant access to a couple of users and no access to everyone. Guess what?<br /><br />Anyone can read the share!! This is just so broken.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-48330068199843419652010-01-19T14:47:52.733-06:002010-01-19T14:47:52.733-06:00Your use case of a shared folder for file sharing ...Your use case of a shared folder for file sharing should work fine w/ the ACL support built into the base OS X.<br /><br />I wouldn't necessarily go about migrating all of your iPhoto library to the shared folder w/out some more validation, but there shouldn't be any problem with simple file sharing. <br /><br />I agree OS X is fraught w/limitations that are just taken for granted Andrew Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09677327615914187000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-22170771933494557652010-01-19T07:59:35.239-06:002010-01-19T07:59:35.239-06:00The Wikipedia entry for Tiger (10.4!) mentions the...The Wikipedia entry for Tiger (10.4!) mentions the new feature of Access Control Lists [1]. The current web page for OS X Server (10.6) mentions [2]: <br /><br />"Mac OS X Server supports both traditional UNIX file permissions and access control lists, giving administrators an unprecedented level of control over file and folder permissions. With access control lists, any file object can be JGFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580785981874040314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-56288840379759603842010-01-19T00:26:26.584-06:002010-01-19T00:26:26.584-06:00OS X supports Access Control Lists (just like many...OS X supports Access Control Lists (just like many Unix distros). With ACLs you can configure shared folders the way you want them: new files "inherit" a specific set of permissions.Andrew Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09677327615914187000noreply@blogger.com