Re: User Privileges
Re: User Privileges
- Subject: Re: User Privileges
- From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:28:31 +0100
Le 6 janv. 2012 à 20:03, Doug McNutt a écrit :
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> A harder way is to invoke Access Control lists which may and may not be handled the same way everywhere. Finder in my older version of OS neXt, 10.3.9, doesn't have any such capability.
Hello Doug,
That's right: ACLs came to Mac OS X with 10.4, yet prudently disabled by default.
Since there's no real standard for the implementation of ACLs, Apple has chosen an implementation that was sufficiently semantically close to the ones provided by Microsoft so as to allow the integration of Mac and MS clients; at the same time, that implementation was in accordance with the general POSIX guidelines.
> I donno about newer versions but I can imagine Finder with some strange way to combine groups and ACLs while keeping the results safely hidden from the user.
Well, let's be more clear...
The Finder happily obeys the underlying ACLs that are possibly applied to files and directories, so that the logics governing the standard POSIX permissions and the ACLs is well maintained.
Now, the interface provided by the "Info for..." window progressively became a joke, especially when looking at items residing on a shared volume; probably in an attempt to (over)simplify rather subtle matters.
And yes, acting through that window became a nightmare for a user trying to devise sensible permissions/authorizations; currently, the only real way is the command line.
Axel
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