[Tfug] Mac OSX permission problem...

[Bowie J. Poag]

Hmmmm... Did you copy them over as root, or as him?




Jim March wrote:
> I know there's some OSX geeks here...
>
> I helped a friend set up his new iMac (Intel based, OS 10.5.2).  We
> did a network between that and his old critter (also doing OSX).  I
> managed to share his stuff from the old box with full
> write-permissions, but once I copied his stuff to the new rig he still
> had read-only permissions on it...and I could *not* figure out how to
> reset them.
>
> chmod and chown don't accept the same "-R" switch to allow resetting a
> whole directory tree (as in their /home/username dir).  Nothing in the
> GUI supported permission resetting.  It was a nightmare.
>
> What the hell?
>
> Help!
>
> Jim
>
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