What are the permissions (Finder-File-Get Info) for my internal Mac Pro drives supposed to be?
I'm running OSX 10.6.8 and have 5 internal drives. I've created two separate users: a file-administrator and a "standard" user. For daily use I log into the "standard" user, and whenever I need to install an application etc. I need to enter my administrator username/password while there.
My drives are set up as follows:
The reason I ask is because I've been attempting to hide some of those drive icons on the Finder desktop using an Applescript (in order to avoid clutter with drives I never access anyway).
This worked fine for all drives except the bootable backup which I traced down to being an permission issue.
Unfortunately Chronosync tells me it can't create a bootable backup if the "Ignore ownership on this volume" feature (Finder-File-Get Info) is enabled, so that wasn't an option.
The next thing I tried was to create a new user (Finder-File-Get Info) for that drive, which in this case would be myself (the "standard" user). This worked, but I don't know enough about ownerships to understand if this can cause problems down the road or even security issues which I certainly want to avoid.
By doing a "get info" on each drive they're currently set as follows. Are these settings correct?:
I'm running OSX 10.6.8 and have 5 internal drives. I've created two separate users: a file-administrator and a "standard" user. For daily use I log into the "standard" user, and whenever I need to install an application etc. I need to enter my administrator username/password while there.
My drives are set up as follows:
- System (OSX, applications, "Administrator" user home area -SSD)
- File ("Standard" user area home area)
- Bootable backup (daily backup (Chronosync) of the "System" and "File" drives)
- Time Machine (hourly backup of the "System" and "File" drives)
- Cache (Photoshop, Lightroom, ACR cache storage -SSD)
The reason I ask is because I've been attempting to hide some of those drive icons on the Finder desktop using an Applescript (in order to avoid clutter with drives I never access anyway).
This worked fine for all drives except the bootable backup which I traced down to being an permission issue.
Unfortunately Chronosync tells me it can't create a bootable backup if the "Ignore ownership on this volume" feature (Finder-File-Get Info) is enabled, so that wasn't an option.
The next thing I tried was to create a new user (Finder-File-Get Info) for that drive, which in this case would be myself (the "standard" user). This worked, but I don't know enough about ownerships to understand if this can cause problems down the road or even security issues which I certainly want to avoid.
By doing a "get info" on each drive they're currently set as follows. Are these settings correct?:
- System ("Standard" username: read & write, system: read & write, admin: read & write, everyone: read only)
- File ("Administrator" username: read & write, staff: read & write, everyone: read only)
- Bootable backup ("Standard" username: read & write, system: read & write, admin: read & write, everyone: read only)
- Time Machine ("Administrator" username: read & write, staff: read & write, everyone: read only)
- Cache ("Standard" username: read & write, staff: read & write, everyone: read only)