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Why make the symlinks?
Authored by: a1291762 on Jul 06, '04 09:24:27PM

I don't understand why you are creating symlinks...

Simply do the chmod then navigate into /Users -> user2 -> Documents (or whatever) and everything is fine.

By default, files you create are readable by others in your group. For Jag (perhaps also Panther if upgraded from Jag) this is the "staff" group. It's only the "default" directories that have bad permissions. An alternative is to rename each directory, create a new one and move all your files over. The new directory will have "group readable" permissions.

Note that Panther creates a group with the same name as your username (more like what Linux distros do). You need to use netinfo to set all your users to the staff group (and chgrp -R their home dirs) to get the same BSDish behaviour of Jag.



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Why make the symlinks?
Authored by: SOX on Jul 06, '04 10:26:20PM

Uh try it. Or read the post. It does not work using the group permissions. That was the whole point.



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