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Re: MacOSX 10.0.X Permissions uncorrectly set


From: Andrew Wellington <wellingr () tpgi com au>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 22:00:54 +1000

At 2:24 AM +0200 26/6/01, kangoo  wrote:
Permissions of /Users/yourname/Desktop which show your desktop is
xrwxrwxrwx, allowing every user to read/write on your own Desktop folder.

Fix: chmod 755 or chmod 750 /Users/yourname/Desktop

Apple have been warned long ago and as of 10.0.4 it is stil not fixed.

Les moines.

This is not the permissions on my copy of OS X.

drwx------   6 andrew  staff     264 Jun 25 00:32 Desktop

This is on OS X, installed on the same partition as 9.1 from the 10.0 CD and upgraded to each successive version including 10.0.4 using Software Update. The drive is HFS+ formatted.

Andrew
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