An ACL or access control list is list of permissions attached to an object. It specifies which users/system processes have access to the object as well as what they are allowed to do.
0
votes
0answers
60 views
How to add system users/groups to ACL in Lion
I'm using Lion and am trying to modify my ACL for a folder within Finder to share with user _www . I have opened the Properties window, and expanded the Sharing & Permissions section, but I do ...
1
vote
0answers
51 views
Permissions on network sharepoint weird OS 10.5.8
In my office we have a RAID array that is an external drive connected to a Server, running OS 10.4.11 Server, and several Sharepoints are defined on this drive. I mount these volumes on my desktop, ...
1
vote
3answers
273 views
Moving a folder with “sudo mv”, how to preserve ACLs?
I'm moving a whole folder from one volume to another (both HFS+), using sudo mv, and thought ACLs would be preserved. However at the end of transfer I see that they haven't been kept, and since mv ...
1
vote
2answers
370 views
Set inherited permissions on iLifeAssetManagement?
I have a second user account on my machine that is only used for iCloud syncing for my wife's apple id. In order to consolidate photostream photos I'm going to set up a process to pull new photos out ...
2
votes
0answers
157 views
mount AFP share, carrying the server's file ACLs through to the client
The goal: I've got a server sharing files via AFP. On the server, these files have ACLs. When I mount this share with a client, I'd like for the files that appear on the client to retain the original ...
2
votes
0answers
76 views
Stopping ACL inheritance from the command line in OS X Lion?
With the following folder structure on a file share:
- Department (directory)
+ User1 (directory)
+ User2 (directory)
+ User3 (directory)
Whenever I add an ACE to the Department directory, ...
2
votes
2answers
269 views
Time Machine and the dreaded negative sign
I am about to modify the file ownerships in my Time Machine disk, which uses ACLs.
Since it is my (only) backup disk, I thought I'd solicit comments on the script before I run it. The objective is to ...
