Setting File Permissions for Classic apps
Setting File Permissions for Classic apps
- Subject: Setting File Permissions for Classic apps
- From: rsharp <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:09:55 -0500 (CDT)
All,
The place I work at during the day is in the dark ages. Our current suite
of apps are only being revised at this time to work under Classic. After
the apps are installed though (which is done via Apple's old Installer
4.0.x), we need the user to additionally set permissions on a few things.
Because the installer itself isn't carbonized (and for other reasons too),
we can't have the installer set the permissions.
I've been thinking of coming up with a very small app that would provide a
UI (our customers are primary non-technical, so command-line apps are out)
that will allow a user to select the folder that they installed the app
suite to. The app would then do chmod's on well-known files/folders.
I was thinking of just going with Carbon (ultimately using something like
FSSetCatalogInfo), but wanted to ask if there would be a smaller
development effort if I used Cocoa. I guess I could come up with
something like ShellShell which basically just executes shell scripts.
I'm not looking for anything fancy. Assumptions are that the user would
have to be logged in as an Admin in order to run the app.
TIA,
Rick Sharp
Instant Interactive(tm)