Re: Lion permissions problem in /Library/Application Support
Re: Lion permissions problem in /Library/Application Support
- Subject: Re: Lion permissions problem in /Library/Application Support
- From: Per Olofsson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:15:33 +0000
- Thread-topic: Lion permissions problem in /Library/Application Support
13 dec 2011 kl. 16:49 skrev Howard Moon:
> Hi all,
>
> we've got AudioUnit plug-ins that write files that need to be accessible by all users, and have always put them in /Library/Application Support/Antares/..., but in Lion, our plug-ins are not able to write under Application Support unless the user first changes the permissions to allow Admin to have Read/Write access to that folder.
>
> Is there a way our Iceberg-based installers can modify the permissions on that folder? Or, is there a new location under Lion for all-user application files? (And if so, how would our plug-ins know they were running under Lion and be able to access the "correct" location?)
I've always thought that /Users/Shared is the correct location for shared user files (as the name implies :). It's writeable by all, but the sticky bit is set so users can only rename or delete their own files.
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Per Olofsson
System Administrator, IT-services, University of Gothenburg
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