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From: Daniel Cohen on 15 Jun 2010 02:17
What should the permissions be on the main folders (Documents,
Pictures,etc.) in a user's home folder?

My friend is finding that she has to authenticate whenever she tries to
delete items from her Pictures folder (and elsewhere). I'm pretty sure
that the issue is that permissions got screwed up during a restore of
her whole disk.

Currently, a Get Info on these folders reports "You have custom access"
and shows read and write access for her user name, but no entry under
Groups, and Everyone with No Access.

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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kir=E1ly?= on 15 Jun 2010 13:14
Daniel Cohen <dcohenspam(a)talktalk.net> wrote:
> What should the permissions be on the main folders (Documents,
> Pictures,etc.) in a user's home folder?
>
> My friend is finding that she has to authenticate whenever she tries to
> delete items from her Pictures folder (and elsewhere). I'm pretty sure
> that the issue is that permissions got screwed up during a restore of
> her whole disk.

I think I know what's wrong. What version of OS X is she running?

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From: Daniel Cohen on 15 Jun 2010 15:29
Kir�ly <me(a)home.spamsucks.ca> wrote:

> Daniel Cohen <dcohenspam(a)talktalk.net> wrote:
> > What should the permissions be on the main folders (Documents,
> > Pictures,etc.) in a user's home folder?
> >
> > My friend is finding that she has to authenticate whenever she tries to
> > delete items from her Pictures folder (and elsewhere). I'm pretty sure
> > that the issue is that permissions got screwed up during a restore of
> > her whole disk.
>
> I think I know what's wrong. What version of OS X is she running?
>

Lepard 10.5.8.

Some of her items had Everyone set to Read Only, but also Everyone
custom. I have removed that extra Everyone using Batchmod, but havn't
tried deleting files yet as I'm not sure what she wants to delete.

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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kir=E1ly?= on 15 Jun 2010 17:13
Daniel Cohen <dcohenspam(a)talktalk.net> wrote:
> Lepard 10.5.8.
>
> Some of her items had Everyone set to Read Only, but also Everyone
> custom. I have removed that extra Everyone using Batchmod, but havn't
> tried deleting files yet as I'm not sure what she wants to delete.

I bet that somebody used the "Apply to enclosed items" button on her
home folder or on one of the OS X installed subfolders (Documents, etc).
That propagates the "everyone deny delete" ACL entry to everything
inside.

These Terminal commands should fix things. Run them in an admin
account. I'll assume her short user name is "foo".

sudo chown -R foo ~foo
sudo chmod -RN ~foo
sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~foo
sudo chmod -R go-w ~foo

After that, the permissions on the OS X installed subfolders can be
fixed by booting up from the Leopard DVD. Then choose Reset Password
from the menu, and click "Repair home folder permissions" at the bottom.

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From: Daniel Cohen on 16 Jun 2010 11:30
Kir�ly <me(a)home.spamsucks.ca> wrote:

> Daniel Cohen <dcohenspam(a)talktalk.net> wrote:
> > Lepard 10.5.8.
> >
> > Some of her items had Everyone set to Read Only, but also Everyone
> > custom. I have removed that extra Everyone using Batchmod, but havn't
> > tried deleting files yet as I'm not sure what she wants to delete.
>
> I bet that somebody used the "Apply to enclosed items" button on her
> home folder or on one of the OS X installed subfolders (Documents, etc).
> That propagates the "everyone deny delete" ACL entry to everything
> inside.
>
> These Terminal commands should fix things. Run them in an admin
> account. I'll assume her short user name is "foo".
>
> sudo chown -R foo ~foo
> sudo chmod -RN ~foo
> sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~foo
> sudo chmod -R go-w ~foo
>
> After that, the permissions on the OS X installed subfolders can be
> fixed by booting up from the Leopard DVD. Then choose Reset Password
> from the menu, and click "Repair home folder permissions" at the bottom.

Many thanks. That explanation sounds likely.

Maybe Batchmod has solved the problem. If not, I've filed your advice
and will try it.
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