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I have an external drive.
I opened terminal and issued the following commands:
cd /Volume/EXTDRIVE/
chmod -R 700 myfolder

The idea was to set the folder myfolder to read/wrtie/execute for me only and stop access to any others. The command seemed to work and all permissions were set as I had intended.

I then logged off and logged onto another user's account on the mac mini and that user could see and manipulate any file under myfolder -i.e. the permissions just seemed to belong to whoever was logged on and not to the original username.

I am so confused. I have been using unix a long time and this used to be sufficient to protect my files. Now with OS X 10.4 there seems to be no protection.

Oddly enough I cannot browse other user's documents folder for example -so the scheme is available but I cannot fathom it.

Can someone enlighten me?

2007-03-12 13:31:37 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet Security

3 answers

the mac supports lots of different formats for hard disks!

some handle security, others don't!

re-format it with the standard HFS+ format, and you should see some security! it that doesn't work make sure the files are owned by you, with no other access for the others! (700)

but even that can be hacked by a disk thief!

what do you see with ls -aln /Volume/EXTDRIVE/ ?

2007-03-12 15:13:55 · answer #1 · answered by jake cigar™ is retired 7 · 1 0

the people to ask are OS/X support they are your best bet I don't think you'll get Unix people on here only windoz users and a few Linux new users

By the way where could I get a copy of OS/X 10.4 like to see if I can get it to work on my PC

2007-03-12 13:44:26 · answer #2 · answered by Carling 7 · 0 1

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2016-10-02 00:45:28 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

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