Setting permissions

[sttcharl]

I have users that log in using active directory and I want to give Everyone read and write access on the mac using OS 10.2 However, I can't seem to figure out how to do this. When I log in as administrator and click Ownership & Permissions the Others drop down is grayed out and set to read only. It is grayed out after I click the lock to unlock it. How can I make so that anyone who logs in has read and write access on the mac?

Thanks.

 

[MINIMACMAN]

The best way is to enable the root user and login. Then you will be able to have right to all folders and files.
after making changes disable the root user.
The root user is inables through NetInfo Manger (/Applications/Utilities)
Hope this helps

 

[ObviousTroll]

There is no good reason to enable the root login on a Mac; doing so is simply asking for trouble.

OS X uses a multi-part security model, with different areas given different permissions. You don't specify which areas you're trying to give read-write acccess to, but attempting to change the read write access to the entire boot drive would completely undermine the security of the machine, opening it up to both accidental corruption and malicious abuse.

*which* parts of the Mac are you trying to give read/write access to? Why?

 

[sttcharl]

What I was trying to do was undermine the security of the machine as you mentioned. QuarkXPress 5 needs to write temp files to the harddrive, I think in a system folder?, and the user needs to have write access to these areas. However, I've decided just to tell users to restart the mac into OS 9 and use it there. We have another program that can only be run in OS 9 so users already boot up into OS 9 anyways.

 

[ObviousTroll]

Quark's writing to the system folder? Oy. Even in OS 9 that's a Bad Thing.

 

[jimoblak]

Troll, most all apps in OS9 would write to the system folder - Preferences. I realize it is hard to recall the old OS9 days when you've been living well in X.

- - picklefish - -

Why is everyone in this forum responding to me as picklefish?

 

[ObviousTroll]

I wonder why Quark has a problem when most classic apps can still write preference files? Interesting.

 

[sttcharl]

Quark didn't have a problem till we changed the macs to login through active directory. Something wit hthe Active Directory login messes up how classic uses permissions.