Re: packagemaker newbie - permissions issue
Re: packagemaker newbie - permissions issue
- Subject: Re: packagemaker newbie - permissions issue
- From: Stephane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:32:16 -0700
root:admin 775 or 664 depending on if it's a folder or a file.
In some version of Mac OS X, the group id of a user had the same value
as its user id, e.g. 501:501. On other versions, it was/is 501:20. The
best solution (IMHO) is to use root:admin if you install anything in
/Library or /Applications.
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Peter Lee<email@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Our applicaton has a couple of files that anybody who runs the application
> needs read/write access to. One is stored in Library/Application
> Support/Rising Software and the other is in the application bundle. In
> Packagemaker, they are getting assigned to group 'staff', with my own name
> as the owner. As I understand, who owns the file isn't really an issue, as
> long as the group has rw access, and all users who need to use the spp are
> in the group that owns the file(s).
>
> On 10.5, every user seems to be in the 'staff' group. I not sure if that
> that's the case in earlier versions of OSX - it may be but my 10.4 disk
> won't boot at the moment....
>
> Having said that - on a friends machine - 10.5, he's transferred his profile
> from an earlier version of OSX, and he's not in staff. I don't know if he
> was in staff on his earlier box - I _think_ that in earlier versions of OSX,
> you are in a group with the same name/number as your user name/number, and
> perhaps you don't get membership of staff automatically when you transfer
> your profile.
>
> I'm just wondering how we should handle this? We could make those files
> owned by group 'everyone' instead? It sounds a bit ugly to me?
> Thanks,
>
> Peter Lee
>
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