Permissions

[Patrick McCormick]

If I mount a remote directory on my Mac, I have to enter a user/pass
that should clear permissions issues for BBEdit to edit anything
directly in that mounted directory.

Yet, whenever I try to open a doc from that directory, I get the
"-5000 you don't have the proper permissions" error from BBEdit. Why
doesn't BBEdit respect the Finder's security?

[David Kelly]

Post by Patrick McCormick
If I mount a remote directory on my Mac, I have to enter a user/pass
that should clear permissions issues for BBEdit to edit anything
directly in that mounted directory.

No.

Post by Patrick McCormick
Yet, whenever I try to open a doc from that directory, I get the
"-5000 you don't have the proper permissions" error from BBEdit. Why
doesn't BBEdit respect the Finder's security?

Yes. That is why you can't. You used an account that was permitted to
mount the filesystem. Now the files apparently belong to a different
user. You need to reconcile the user ID's or put both the remote files
and yourself in a common group which has read/write access to the files.

At least this is how I've found MacOS X and FreeBSD interact via NFS.

Remember its not the owner name that is important, its the owner's
number, the "uid". Drop into a Terminal shell on each machine and type
"id". Or cd to the remote directory (its mounted under /Volumes/*) on
your local machine and type "ls -ln" (ells, not ones) to see the numeric
user and group ownership of the files.

Management of user accounts changed a great deal in Leopard. Previously
the information was kept in a .plist that could be edited. Have
forgotten exactly what I did to hack my Leopard accounts into the same
uid and gid numbers but involved downloading server utilities from
Apple.

Is a lot easier (for me) to change my uid and gid on FreeBSD, but I had
one FreeBSD and (3) Macs, and the Macs couldn't agree as to whether I
was 501, 502, or 503. So the Macs had to change.
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David Kelly N4HHE, ***@HiWAAY.net
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