Comments on: myHack Installer 1.0 RC5.1 Released

By: Conti

Conti — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:37:51 +0000

Steve: I told you exactly what is happening and how to fix it.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:05:58 +0000

Yo Conti,

Thanks for all that but did yo understand my issue ? Like what is happening ? And did u get my permissions I pasted ? I want “Everyone” and “Staff” usergroups to have read/write permissions by default !

Can you tell me how to do that ?

By: Conti

Conti — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:46:15 +0000

Steve: read http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/chmod.1.html & http://developer.apple.com/Mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/chown.8.html

for future reference you can also simply type ‘man somecmd’ from the terminal and read the manpages from within the OS. This is the same with all *nix based operating systems.

You should also read through this site here to familiarize yourself with basic unix commands to familiarize yourself with basic terminal functions. http://mally.stanford.edu/~sr/computing/basic-unix.html

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:40:30 +0000

There ya go :

Last login: Thu Feb 11 01:57:20 on console
TechXeros-MacBook-Pro:~ techxero$ ls -l
total 8
drwx——+ 11 techxero staff 374 Feb 11 02:24 Desktop
drwx——+ 14 techxero staff 476 Feb 11 02:24 Documents
drwx——+ 8 techxero staff 272 Feb 10 00:17 Downloads
drwx——+ 36 techxero staff 1224 Feb 11 01:11 Library
drwx——+ 3 techxero staff 102 Feb 9 21:58 Movies
drwx——+ 5 techxero staff 170 Feb 10 00:06 Music
drwx——+ 55 techxero staff 1870 Feb 10 01:03 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x+ 5 techxero staff 170 Feb 9 21:58 Public
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 58 Feb 9 22:00 Send Registration -> /Users/techxero/Library/Assistants/Send Registration.setup
drwxr-xr-x+ 5 techxero staff 170 Feb 9 21:58 Sites

P.S : Can you tell me how to correct the permissions using chown & chmod commands ? What is the exact syntax ?

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:35:48 +0000

Ok Conti :

Well my user “TechXero” has read write permissions, as for “Everyone” and “Staff” usergroups have read only permissions.

The thing I want is to set “Everyone” and “Staff” usergroups to have read/write permissions by default. Is that possible ?

Thanks !

By: Conti

Conti — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:47:41 +0000

Steve: Why are you even looking at the get info screen? Open a terminal – run ls -l

Who owns the files? What are the permissions of the files?

Then simply correct the permissions using chown & chmod commands.

This is standard *nix stuff – don’t rely on the GUI when you have a terminal at your fingertips.

As far as RC5.2 question – yes just install it over the RC5.1.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:31:17 +0000

BTW mate do I have to do a fresh install of SL with RC5.2 or can I just install it updating the current RC5.1 ?

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:23:28 +0000

You know when yo do the get info on a file there’s this small lock that disables any future changes, even though it’s locked meaning no changes can be made to permissions without my password well I can still edit permissions.

And I have used the newest Pfix 2.6 still he same issue remains. After zipping the theme I created then send it to Repo owner he just can’t release the zip file coz he has to manually set “Everyone” group to Read/Write … In order to be able to edit image names or to release …

I had that issue ever since the issue I suffered from a few weeks back … I am just getting so frustrated :(

What to do ?

By: Conti

Conti — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:33:59 +0000

Steve: I’m not sure I quite understand you, I don’t really focus on GUI details when it comes to permissions I go to the termal and do a trusty ls -l
Might be related to the small bug I introduced in RC5.1/pfix2.4… Try the more recent versions in RC5.2 and see if that fixes the problem. If not give me more specific details.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:07:08 +0000

Yo Conti :

Sorry posted it twice in wrong place (apologies) !

I recently did a clean install of SL, using myHack 1.0 RC5.1 but I am having permission issues. Like in the Get info box I see I am only one with read/write all the rest are read only. I can even change permissions though it’s locked, you know the small lock that disables any changes …

I am concerned coz I use this “HACK” to create iPhone themes and the repo owner keeps complaining that received files have permission issues meaning he has to manually edit them before submitting and it’s getting on his nerves as I submit close to 5 themes/day …

Any way I can fix that ?