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Re: 10.6 Upgrade kills permissions on Application Support folder
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Re: 10.6 Upgrade kills permissions on Application Support folder


  • Subject: Re: 10.6 Upgrade kills permissions on Application Support folder
  • From: "Clemmer, Everette" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:48:16 -0400
  • Acceptlanguage: en-US
  • Thread-topic: 10.6 Upgrade kills permissions on Application Support folder

Title: Re: 10.6 Upgrade kills permissions on Application Support folder
I agree with that case when the application is installed for a specific user. What about the case when the application is installed for all users? It seems like it should be in /Library/Application Support for the latter situation.

Everette


On 8/26/09 3:33 PM, "Don Montalvo" <email@hidden> wrote:

The permissions look right. Users should only be able to write to ~/Library/Application\ Support

Don

Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:38:13 -0400
From: "Clemmer, Everette" < <mailto:email@hidden> email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden> >
Subject: 10.6 Upgrade kills permissions on Application Support folder
   for my app
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Hey all,

I have an application that needs a support folder in /Library/Application Support. This folder is created when my installation package is run and has the following permissions:

   drwxrwxrwx   6 root             admin   204 Aug 10 18:09 Foo

When running the 10.6 upgrade to Snow Leopard from 10.5, the permissions get changed to:

   drwxr-xr-x   6 root             admin   204 Aug 10 18:09 Foo

This has the side effect of preventing the application from writing to the folder when run as a user other than root. Changing the permissions back to drwxrwxrwx after the upgrade fixes the problem, but I'd rather release a preemptive patch to fix this rather than dealing with it on the customer support side. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Everette

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