Batchmod for mac4/10/2023 V1, Hal, or DK has already mentioned ACLs as a possibility for the "custom access" (I'm too lazy to go back and look ) but TinkerTool System confirms their opinion. If you haven't tried it, Marcel Bresink's TinkerTool System 2 is chock full of obscure but useful stuff like this. The folder(s) in question are those required by OS X to be in the user's home folder such as ~/Library. Looking at the "Effective Permissions" for my user account, again using TinkerTool System, I find that even though I have POSIX read, write, execute privileges for the folder, I do not have Delete privileges for the folder itself and neither can I change the owner of that folder. However, when I look at the ACL permissions using TinkerTool System on one of the folders with POSIX permissions of 700 I find there is an ACL in effect that denies everyone access to the folder, all levels, and is labeled custom. According to FileXaminer most of those have privileges of 700 and a couple have 755. I checked the home folder on all three Macs here, all running OS X 10.6.3, and the same folders are marked as "custom access" in all of them. Depending on how i went about it (sorry, i don't recall any "reproducible" details), sometimes the info window for /Library/Application Support/ said one thing, and sometimes another. since 10.5.0 at least (perhaps earlier).īut i put that part in parens because i was also able to observe the ambiguity via * regular* info windows. Yes, absolutely true: the Inspector has long been buggy in that regard. Does anyone else see this behavior in 10.5.8 (or any other OS version, for that matter)? The permissions "table" below the caption changes to reflect the actual permissions, but the caption itself is stuck. So, for instance, if I select /System and type Command-Option-i, I see "You can only read." If I now navigate my way to ~Library/Scripts/colored_path.scpt (the script I wrote to construct a UBB.threads color-formatted pathname string from a Finder selection), I still see "You can only read!" In fact, whatever the permissions "caption" is for the first item examined, that's what I see for every subsequent item. but its info window says: "You can read and write"Īctually, as i play around a bit (including using the Inspector via command-option-i), sometimes the info window for that /Library/Application Support folder also says "You can read and write" instead.īah —when it comes to permissions, etc., — i don't rely on (or trust in) Finder's info windows.įor me, languishing here in 10.5.8, the Inspector seems to have a bug in this regard: if the first file or folder I look at says, "You have custom access," then every subsequent file or folder I look at says the same thing. Ls -led /Applications /Library/Application\ Supportĭrwxrwxr-x 53 root admin 1802 May 12 13:17 /Applicationsĭrwxrwxr-x 31 root admin 1054 May 5 22:22 /Library/Application Support The /Applications folder has virtually identical (POSIX) perms. Similar folders that i don't own say something different. I guess they (Apple) mean i don't **own** the item, therefore my access is via some other route.īut it's not very consistent. above it says "You have custom access" - Hmmm. Okay, i've got 10.6.3 now, and when i look at those two with Finder, i see no "custom" access: Ls -led /Library/Application\ Support/Adobeĭrwxrwxr-x 50 root admin 1700 Nov 26 07:49 /Library/Application Support/Adobe Drwxrwxr-x 38 root admin 1292 Mar 4 13:41 /Library/Application Support
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