On Mar 3, 2012, at 8:35, Ashley Aitken <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1. inheritance does not apply to files and directories that already exist in > the hierarchy
It does if you apply it. It is easier to do from the command line though. > 2. folders and files *moved* into the hierarchy do not inherit the ACLs Hmm… not sure about that. I seem to recall that I was able to do this with my 'R rated' movie folder to apply ACLs to files moved into it. It's a directory property. Apple does not provide good tools for ACLs in OS X, but the command line tools are the same as on any other UNIX. > The syntax for ACLs on the command line also seems very verbose - does one > really have to type (or copy) all those attributes, there is no "all" for > ACLs? I don't remember, but if you have BBEdit you can use a shell worksheet to make this a lot easier. -- Siri says this is a signature. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
