{"id":17817,"date":"2017-04-25T16:48:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T20:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17817"},"modified":"2017-04-25T16:50:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T20:50:28","slug":"controlling-file-permissions-in-shared-folders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/25\/controlling-file-permissions-in-shared-folders\/","title":{"rendered":"Controlling File Permissions in Shared Folders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3189986\/macs\/why-readwrite-permissions-go-awry-with-macos-file-sharing.html\">Glenn Fleishman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3189986\/macs\/why-readwrite-permissions-go-awry-with-macos-file-sharing.html\">\n<p>But despite all the control over who can do what, there&rsquo;s shockingly no way to lock permissions for a given folder such that everything created in it, modified in it, or added to it inherits the permissions of the parent folder. That is, you&rsquo;d expect you could say, &ldquo;Shared Folder should always be reachable for everyone who has access to this system,&rdquo; and yet there&rsquo;s no simple way to ensure that.<\/p>\n<p>Over at StackExchange, a contributor <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.stackexchange.com\/a\/7255\/202425\">came up with a long command-line invocation<\/a> you can use in Terminal to set a folder to keep permissions set correctly, but it only works when files are created in the folder&mdash;if you move a file or multiple items in, they don&rsquo;t inherit the right permissions. If you&rsquo;re comfortable with the Terminal, this will certainly reduce the problem but not get rid of it.<\/p>\n<p>Apple does offer a $20 upgrade for macOS that lets you turn a Mac into a more full-featured server, including better controls for folder access.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is one of the other things that Dropbox made easy.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Fleishman: But despite all the control over who can do what, there&rsquo;s shockingly no way to lock permissions for a given folder such that everything created in it, modified in it, or added to it inherits the permissions of the parent folder. That is, you&rsquo;d expect you could say, &ldquo;Shared Folder should always be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[47,547,1511,30,680,1381,476],"class_list":["post-17817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-dropbox","tag-permissions","tag-file-sharing","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-server","tag-macos-10-12","tag-networking"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17819,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17817\/revisions\/17819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}