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Allow shared write access to any directory
Authored by: syzygies on Jan 20, '06 01:23:46PM
Nice summary!

I have two accounts, an administrative account ad and a nonadministrative account me, constituting a group we. Both accounts have a umask of 0007. I have changed ownerships and permissions recursively on both users' home directories using chown -R ad:we, chown -R me:we, chmod -R g+rwX,o-rwx. All is nearly well; most applications and shell commands create files and directories obeying the umask. However, the Finder persists in creating folders with permissions drwxr-xr-x, not drwxrwx--- as I would like. It seems to ignore the umask setting.

Any ideas?

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Allow shared write access to any directory
Authored by: thorsten.b on Feb 09, '06 06:27:33AM

Great Hint.
I tried this with mail, adium, ical ,address book and safari bookmarks file/folders in the library to share those applications between 2 local accounts. Yet: mail works, but all the other applications not. also i can't symlink the apple.com.mail pref file in the preference library. has anyone tried this? even when i symlink the pref files - new files are created when I exit the progams overwritting the sym link. also address book and ical won't even start up.



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