Re: (OT) Permissions yet again...

Subject: Re: (OT) Permissions yet again...
From: rsauzier@sfsu.edu
Date: Fri Aug 24 2001 - 18:41:59 EDT

('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:36 -0700 Kerry Hormann wrote:
> What exactly is the problem you're having?

Oops - forgot that detail, huh? ;-)
Logged in through the Chooser, I try to save a file from any program
other than
SimpleText (?) and I get a Permission denied error. Quark Xpress tells
me "Mac
OS error (-500)". And the net result is that it creates an empty file
with the
filename I just tried to save as. (Which is what inspired my little
experiment
with touch!)

> > Logged in as 'luser' ("Lowly User";), I touch a file and it has the
> > following permissions:
> > -rw-rw---- 1 (date/time) test.txt
> >
> > I've got a umask value of 007 for all users, so this shouldn't be
> > happening.
>
> Sounds right to me. A MASK of 007 will give you permissions of 770
> for new
> files. But touch doesn't automatically create an executable file,
> thus the
> 660 permissions.
>
>
>
> Kerry Hormann
>
> Email kerry@hardwareinsider.com
> ------------------------------------------
> <esc>:q!<enter>
>
>
>
> > From: Rob deMallac <rsauzier@sfsu.edu>
> > Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:08:28 -0700 (PDT)
> > To: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
> > Subject: (OT) Permissions yet again...
> > Resent-From: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
> > Resent-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 18:14:12 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> > Hello all-
> >
> > I've got some strange file permission problems that, although
> unrelated to
> > netatalk, are preventing it from working properly.
> >
> > I'm using 1.5pre6, installed from RPM, on Mandrake 8.
> >
> > I've got a umask value of 007 for all users, so this shouldn't be
> > happening. Going through the very helpful archives, I followed
> advice to
> > chmod 2775 on the actual share and chmod g+s for all the little .Apple
> > files, but still no dice.
> >
> > Any help greatly appreciated, and my undying gratitude to the kind soul
> > who prevents me from turning this into a stupid NT box next week!
> >
> > Cheers!
> > -Rob
> > =)
> >
> > *********************************
> > Rob deMallac
> > Network Manager
> > SFSU Journalism Department
> > http://www.journalism.sfsu.edu/
> > *********************************
> >

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