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My permissions nightmare! (happy ending)
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<blockquote data-quote="Mac_Biodiesel" data-source="post: 620788" data-attributes="member: 41185"><p>Is there a good permissions/ownership tutorial out there? I'm having a difficult time getting my files set-up the way I want them to. I grew up on Macs, but am rather new to MacOS X. I've done some work with UNIX, but I'm not a power user.</p><p></p><p>My user account is set to Standard, not Admin. I used to run as Admin when I was a Windows user, but I decided to roll with MacOS's convention of NOT giving users Admin privileges by default. My wife has a user account, and I often have family members who will log on as guests.</p><p></p><p>Here's the issue: I have a "Games" directory that is in my "Applications" directory. There are perhaps 20+ directories inside that which house various games. Some of those I installed with my Standard account, some with my Admin account (logged-in, not just "authenticated"). I want everything INSIDE of the "Games" folder to be read/writable by ALL users. I also want all users to be able to create their own folders inside of "Games". </p><p></p><p>I thought chmod'ing "Games" to 777 (and using the -R argument) would take care of this, and the permissions did indeed change, but from time to time I'll still get prompted to authenticate or simply be told that I can't run a game. Another example, albeit trivial, is something like a high score not being saved, which I assume is due to a permissions conflict.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mac_Biodiesel, post: 620788, member: 41185"] Is there a good permissions/ownership tutorial out there? I'm having a difficult time getting my files set-up the way I want them to. I grew up on Macs, but am rather new to MacOS X. I've done some work with UNIX, but I'm not a power user. My user account is set to Standard, not Admin. I used to run as Admin when I was a Windows user, but I decided to roll with MacOS's convention of NOT giving users Admin privileges by default. My wife has a user account, and I often have family members who will log on as guests. Here's the issue: I have a "Games" directory that is in my "Applications" directory. There are perhaps 20+ directories inside that which house various games. Some of those I installed with my Standard account, some with my Admin account (logged-in, not just "authenticated"). I want everything INSIDE of the "Games" folder to be read/writable by ALL users. I also want all users to be able to create their own folders inside of "Games". I thought chmod'ing "Games" to 777 (and using the -R argument) would take care of this, and the permissions did indeed change, but from time to time I'll still get prompted to authenticate or simply be told that I can't run a game. Another example, albeit trivial, is something like a high score not being saved, which I assume is due to a permissions conflict. [/QUOTE]
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