Ownership & Permissions

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mead

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I would like the other users of my system who are not administrators have access to the applications on my system.

If I want to give access to them, what do I select from Get-Info -> Ownership&Permissions.

I have selected system. Is that fine?
 
All users already have access to apps in the Applications folder, You can just move any apps to that folder, Or, move apps to the Shared folder in the Users folder. As you know, other users have no access to your <user name> folder except the Public and Sites folders, better to leave those alone, and put your Shared apps in the Shared folder. Simple, Eh?
 
My problem is I have two partitions.
OS X on one and OS 9 on the other.
I have applications on OS 9 that need to be used by all the users.

I changed the ownership of the entire partition to "system" instead of "Me" and it seems to be working.

Am i doing it right?;)
 
your 0S 9 apps should be available to any user, that exactly the same setup that I have. There are no permissions on the OS 9 partition, as long as you have no OS X specific folders on that partition, Have you moved any OS X apps to that parrtition
 
Here you go......get info for your OS 9 volume and click on the box that says 'ignore ownership on this volume' That should do it the right way!


:)
 
No. I have not moved any OSX folders to OS 9. But the ownership information on OS9 tells me that I am the owner.

I am sorry. I did "Ignore Ownership". I forgot to mention that.

Thanks a lot.

Anyway, what is the use of "system" in ownership?
 
I use my OS 9 partition some times to completely backup everything on OSX partition, then erase that part and then copy everything back. Last time I used a root login to copy using just OSX, reformatted copied everything, All my permission were screwed up, took a long time to sort everfything out. If you try that, boot to OS 9 system and copy the OSX stuff. Why? OS 9 copy does not affect any permissions! Point is, I dont care much for permissions, I'm not a Unix guru, Too much guessing for me to get it right the first time :)
 
I use OS 9 to backup too. But as a secondary backup only. I burn my data on a cd before doing this stuff. :-) I know I do not need do it.

Anyway thanks for your help.

My Powerbook does not boot to OS9 when I have OS9 on a different partition. When I drag the system folder from OS9 partition to OSX and restart the computer with OS9 as startup disk, it starts up perfectly. Weird.
 
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