Re: Groups, permissions, sharing

On 03/05/2006, at 7:15 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi all - OSX Tiger 10.4.6 - I'm having a bit of a problem getting to grips with setting folder permissions to get the results I want. I have set up a number of user accounts eg € an admin account for setting things up but not used day to day €

Re: Groups, permissions, sharing

Hi Neil. I don't run multiple users on my computer so I'm not an expert on this. You might find that OS X doesn't provide quite as much as the functionality as you'd like. If this is the case I'm sure you could find some software to fill the gap from versiontracker by typing a search fo

Re: Groups, permissions, sharing

Neil, You need to use Access Control Lists (ACLs) to do what you want. Not difficult, but does require Tiger and the use of Terminal. ACLs override standard file permissions, and give you the ability to assign access permissions by user. John Siracusa explains ACLs vs file permissions v

Groups, permissions, sharing

Hi all - OSX Tiger 10.4.6 - I'm having a bit of a problem getting to grips with setting folder permissions to get the results I want. I have set up a number of user accounts eg € an admin account for setting things up but not used day to day € my main user account € account for the other hal