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    my 15" aluminum powerbook's head crash

    I cannot help but emphasize the quote above, backup is the key. After 30 years of working with computers this is as important today as it was in yesteryear. I keep at least 3 copies of all important data and 1 more offsite. Just last week I had my Apple RAID system lose 2 drives in a RAID 5...
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    Howto Specify a Group Using Access Control Lists

    Great idea, I should have remembered that! FWIW, the name change seems to have caused no problems so far, but I am going to try the subgroup anyway, much cleaner.
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    Howto Specify a Group Using Access Control Lists

    A workaround is to rename the group, I changed the group 'admin' to 'sysadmin' and can now specify the 'sysadmin' as I desired.
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    Change Ownership & Permissions

    While certainly possible by simply logging in as 'root' it is not going to be recommended by anyone. I would recommend you mitigate your security concerns by changing your admin group in /etc/sudoers file to read: %admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL This will permit all admin users no not...
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    Howto Specify a Group Using Access Control Lists

    I cannot for the life of me get chmod +a "admin allow read,write,delete" /Applications to refer to the group 'admin' . It only seems to look first in the users and if a user is named 'admin it thinks that is what I want. I want the group not the user, how do I do this?
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