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From: Matt on 23 Apr 2008 23:20
Can someone tell me what standard permissions should look like for a Mac
OS X 10.5 administrator account? I have mucked mine up.

Tell me what it looks like in the Finder, or command line output from
"ls -l".

I have mucked up not only "~/" but apparently all subdirectories, such
that I can read and write files, but cannot move, trash or rename
existing files. Or more precisely I can do so, but I am prompted for my
password each time. I am not so restricted with files I've created
post-screw up.

A pre-screw-up file looks like this on the command line:

-rw-r--r--+ 1 mfh staff 582 Mar 29 09:01 partHD

Here is a post screw-up file:

-rw-r--r-- 1 mfh staff 0 Apr 23 22:45 newfile

The difference being the "+" at the end -- what is that? I hope I have
not screwed up an ACL as I really have no idea how those work.

All I did was change my _group_ (not user) permissions to allow read and
write access, and changed it back.

Thank you.

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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kir=E1ly?= on 24 Apr 2008 00:40
Matt <mh197804(a)gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
> All I did was change my _group_ (not user) permissions to allow read and
> write access, and changed it back.

You probably clicked the "apply to enclosed items" button, which would
have propagated the "deny delete" ACL to all your files.

You can remove all ACLs from your home folder by entering this:

sudo chmod -R -N ~

But then you need to put back the ones that are supposed to be there.
The easiest way to to that is to boot from your Leopard disc, select
Reset Password from the Utilities menu, and then click the button to
repair permissions of your home folder.

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From: Matt on 24 Apr 2008 07:53
In article <UaUPj.1857$PM5.665(a)edtnps92>, me(a)home.spamsucks.ca (Kir�ly)
wrote:

> Matt <mh197804(a)gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
> > All I did was change my _group_ (not user) permissions to allow read and
> > write access, and changed it back.
>
> You probably clicked the "apply to enclosed items" button, which would
> have propagated the "deny delete" ACL to all your files.
>
> You can remove all ACLs from your home folder by entering this:
>
> sudo chmod -R -N ~
>
> But then you need to put back the ones that are supposed to be there.
> The easiest way to to that is to boot from your Leopard disc, select
> Reset Password from the Utilities menu, and then click the button to
> repair permissions of your home folder.

You're right, I did apply to enclosed items. I'll definitely try your
fix when I get the time. Thank you!

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