| File permissions and the drop box.
I've encountered one of those annoying things in life, kind of like locking your keys in your car with the engine running. I have my system set up so that users have drop boxes, which other users have only write permissions for. The problem arises when a user drops a file into another user's drop box, when the file has read-only permissions for everyone but the owner. Now, the guy with the drop box has a bunch of files he can't delete (no write permissions), and the guy who owns the files can't get to them to delete them (no read permissions for the drop box). The only way I know of to delete these files is to su to root and delete them from the command line. I've tried changing the permissions from the info window and copying the permissions to all enclosed folders, but that doesn't work for files (and it seems to work inconsistently even for folders).
Does anyone know of a fix or a workaround? I sent feedback to Apple on this; hopefully there isn't any totally obvious workaround... |