On 11/08/2010, at 6:11 AM, Steven Knowles wrote:
I'm a tad confused.
I park all manner of folders on Macintosh HD, ie. folders alongside the
standard Applications folder, Systems folder, and so on. It's a filing system
I've always used, never had need to do anything different.
If I create a new Account on my Mac, for a 3rd party user, I've always
thought that the new user would not have access to any of those folders on
my Macintosh HD, other than folders which they must have access to, eg.
Applications. But not folders which I've created and added files to whilst
logged in as myself.
I've just discovered this doesn't seem to be the case. Are all files and
folders directly within the Macintosh HD folder public property as far as
local users go? Or do I have a Mac behaving badly? If my Mac is supposed to
behave this way, then I guess it's a little embarrassing realising this after
16 years of using Macs. Better now than never I suppose.
Click one one of these folders and have a look at the permissions rules in the
Get Info window. You'll find that while generally ownership of the folders will
be assigned to System with read and write permissions, everyone else will
have at least read permissions, which means everyone else has access to the
folders: they just can't change their contents. Bear in mind that all this
changed with the introduction of Mac OS X. Prior to that, Mac OS didn't really
care where anything was, since it was a single-user system, ie you could not
add different user accounts. In Mac OS X, everything that you want to belong to
you must be kept inside your own account folder, ie, home.
I'm guessing that I'm going to get told that if I want a multi user machine,
I should be filing my own not for everybody stuff somewhere within my Home
folder, but thought I'd best check with the experts before I start
reorganising my whole filing cabinet.
All you need to do is to move all your private stuff into your Documents
folder. No one can get to them then.
Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948
Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.
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