Re: 10.6 Upgrade kills permissions on Application Support folder for my app
Re: 10.6 Upgrade kills permissions on Application Support folder for my app
- Subject: Re: 10.6 Upgrade kills permissions on Application Support folder for my app
- From: Ryan McGann <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:13:25 -0700
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?
You can try storing your data in in /Users/Shared instead of
Application Support. I'm not sure what the official recommendation is,
but I'd take Apple changing the permissions behind your back as an
unofficial recommendation, since it's obviously too late for them to
change.
Ryan
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