Staff????

[WillEH]

Recently locking a file, and I saw this at the bottom. It has myself, staff, and everyone.

Who is staff? AppleStore staff? they have a special login or something? and can I get rid of that account? Not sure if I want them to access things I've locked, etc.

Thanks.

 

[John T]

Who is staff? AppleStore staff? they have a special login or something?

No of course not! Have you checked the Accounts section of System Prefs?

can I get rid of that account?

Yes, just highlight it and click the minus sign at the bottom of the "Get Info" page.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

As far as I know "staff" is a user group, that is common in UNIX and doesn't need to be deleted.

 

[DewGuy1999]

Troubleshooting permissions issues in Mac OS X

Owner, Group, Others

Abbreviations like "rwx" and "r-x" describe the permission for one user or entity. The permissions set for each file or folder defines access for three entities: owner, group, and others.

• Owner - The owner is most often the user who created the file. Almost all files and folders in your home directory will have your username listed as the owner.
• Group - Admin users are members of the groups called "staff" and "admin". The super user "root" is a member of these and several other groups. Non-admin users are members of "staff" only. Typically, all files and folders are assigned to either "staff," "admin," or "wheel".
• Others - Others refers to all other users that are not the owner or part of the group for a file or folder.

Since each entity has its own permission, an example of a complete permission set could look like "-rwxrw-r--". The leading hyphen designates that the item is a file and not a folder. Folder privileges appear with leading "d," such as "drwxrw-r--". The "d" stands for directory, which is what a folder represents. Figure 2, below, depicts how this looks in the Terminal application.​