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Re: MacOSX 10.0.X Permissions uncorrectly set
From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu () deaddrop org>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 20:02:38 -0700
Jörg Preuß wrote:
kangoo wrote:Permissions of /Users/yourname/Desktop which show your desktop is xrwxrwxrwx, allowing every user to read/write on your own Desktop folder.
That seems to be correct. My station is running on osx 10.0.4 and all desktop folders have permissons 777 - even that one from root...
Well, I was quite curious about this, having been a part of the beta test of macos X for quite a while. We upgraded to 10.0.4, and lo and behold, some accounts had the problem, and some did not. Turns out that those created during the beta test period were the problematic ones. We scrubbed the disk, and reinstalled. All accounts now have the correct permissions. Sounds like the problem accounts were upgrades from beta versions. If you are running an upgrade from a beta, then you might want to take a second look. Fresh installs seem to be just fine. -- COMPASS [for the CDC-6000 series] is the sort of assembler one expects from a corporation whose president codes in octal. J.N. Gray
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- Re: MacOSX 10.0.X Permissions uncorrectly set Jörg Preuß (Jun 28)
- Re: MacOSX 10.0.X Permissions uncorrectly set Toby DiPasquale (Jun 29)
- Re: MacOSX 10.0.X Permissions uncorrectly set Etaoin Shrdlu (Jun 29)
- Re: MacOSX 10.0.X Permissions uncorrectly set Peter Tonoli (Jun 29)
- MacOSX 10.0.X Permissions uncorrectly set kangoo (Jun 26)