Re: Best application ownership and permissions?
Re: Best application ownership and permissions?
- Subject: Re: Best application ownership and permissions?
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 13:10:51 -0400
On May 30, 2012, at 12:37 PM, Stéphane Sudre wrote: If you check the permissions of applications installed from the Mac App Store, they are owned by root:wheel (the same is true for the System Applications).
It wasn't long ago that Apple documentation said wheel is not used in Mac OS X and is essentially identical to admin. I've noticed that wheel is now in use by Apple, but I don't know why or what the significance of this change might be.
In looking at a number of Apple applications in Lion, I see quite a variety of settings. The admin group is widely used. In a surprisingly large number of Apple applications it is set to Read & Write instead of Read only, which strikes me as odd given the radically increased emphasis on security recently.
Based on everything I've found and read, and your comments, I am inclined to set my applications (which use an installer package) to owner: system (root) Read & Write, group: wheel Read only, and all (everybody): Read only. |
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