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10.5: Share any files between users on the same Mac
Authored by: Sesquipedalian on Jun 05, '09 02:11:33PM

I did try it, apparently more thoroughly than you did.

Sharing a folder with read and write permissions will allow another user or group to open the folder and to put files into the folder (yes, Apple's GUI is simplifying read, write & execute into simply "read & write"). But sharing the folder doesn't allow another user to edit a file inside the folder unless and until the permissions on the individual file in question are manually modified (via Finder's Info window or the command line or some other method).

So if my wife's user adds some documents to a shared folder, I can see the document files in the folder and even open them up to read them, but I can't save any changes to them. If I try, I get an error about not having the proper access privileges.

Having to manually modify the permissions on a file isn't too bad to work with for an occasional individual file, but when dealing with the innards of an iPhoto or iTunes library, where many files all over the place are being added and edited all the time, one needs a system in place that will take care of all the permissions issues on all the files and subfolders automatically. That's what this hint about ACLs provides.



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