First, I did do some searching on the forums and didn't find a suitable answer, so here I am with yet another permissions thread.
I understand how permissions work, more or less, so no issues there. My problem is that I hate the whole concept and want to find a way around it.
I understand its purpose, so I don't need a history lesson on why we have it, all I want is a way around it.
For example, I have a small office with four employees and six Mac workstations. We are all networked to each other as well as to a central file server (just an old Mac with file sharing turned on and a big hard drive in it).
Part of our workflow, naturally, is to periodically make folders either locally or on the remote file server. We then share these folders as we push and pull files to and fro. The problem is that we are constantly battling permissions issues since the creator of a folder is the only one with full access, right? You have to turn around and set your newly created folder to full access if you want it wide open, right?
I find this endlessly annoying. I want wide open access to any folder or file on our network by any user to any other user. Is this possible? I do not have a server version of OS X.
I know I can set up volumes to ignore permissions, and that's fine for our file server volume, which is not a startup volume, but for all the other times we make local folders and such I am getting really tired of changing permissions on files and folders.
In short, what is my best option for providing wide open permissions across our network? What if we all logged in as Root? That probably helps locally, but not necessarily when accessing another machine over the network, right? Is Root as scary as it sounds? Wouldn't you kind of have to be an idiot to delete a critical file as Root?
Is there any way to make my whole computer (every stinking folder and file) full read write to everyone else?
Thanks for any help.
Sincerely,
Person who freaking hates changing permissions all the time
I understand how permissions work, more or less, so no issues there. My problem is that I hate the whole concept and want to find a way around it.
I understand its purpose, so I don't need a history lesson on why we have it, all I want is a way around it.
For example, I have a small office with four employees and six Mac workstations. We are all networked to each other as well as to a central file server (just an old Mac with file sharing turned on and a big hard drive in it).
Part of our workflow, naturally, is to periodically make folders either locally or on the remote file server. We then share these folders as we push and pull files to and fro. The problem is that we are constantly battling permissions issues since the creator of a folder is the only one with full access, right? You have to turn around and set your newly created folder to full access if you want it wide open, right?
I find this endlessly annoying. I want wide open access to any folder or file on our network by any user to any other user. Is this possible? I do not have a server version of OS X.
I know I can set up volumes to ignore permissions, and that's fine for our file server volume, which is not a startup volume, but for all the other times we make local folders and such I am getting really tired of changing permissions on files and folders.
In short, what is my best option for providing wide open permissions across our network? What if we all logged in as Root? That probably helps locally, but not necessarily when accessing another machine over the network, right? Is Root as scary as it sounds? Wouldn't you kind of have to be an idiot to delete a critical file as Root?
Is there any way to make my whole computer (every stinking folder and file) full read write to everyone else?
Thanks for any help.
Sincerely,
Person who freaking hates changing permissions all the time