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Boondoggle · Sep 29, 2003, 05:08 AM

Hi,

I am trying to set up protected folders on an external Firewire drive (iPod). I've unchecked "Ignore permissions on this volume" in Get Info, and while the folders retain the permissions I set up, the OS forgets who the owner is. Whoever is logged in becomes the owner of all the folders.

I need to know if this is an iPod related issue or if it is an issue with all external Firewire drives, and if so if there is a workaround.

Is there some flag set for external drives that causes this? Can I change it?

Thanks,

bd

suthercd · Sep 29, 2003, 10:13 AM

Boondoggle

I've seen this question before and I believe that the firewire drives always assume the permissions of the current user when they are mounted.

Craig

Boondoggle · Sep 29, 2003, 01:26 PM

Well it certainly is possible to have folders with permissions on a FW drive. I've just installed a system on the iPod using CC cloner and even when booting off the internal drive, the permissons on the iPod are valid.

What I'm looking for is a way to induce OS10 into thinking that the drive is internal.

Boondoggle · Oct 1, 2003, 08:18 PM

Anybody?

bracken · Oct 2, 2003, 02:06 AM

Interesting. I have a FireWire external drive that has all sorts of permissions. Everything works as as it's supposed to. Yes, I do use it with multiple users.

Boondoggle · Oct 2, 2003, 05:11 AM

That is excellent. This must be an iPod issue. I can now buy an external FW drive...

Thanks bracken

proton · Oct 3, 2003, 11:01 AM

You need to change the owner of the files on the disk - just do a chown on the files.

Although they show up in the Finder and the Terminal as being owned by the currently logged in user, on the disk they will be owned by the user "unknown" (UID 99). Any file on any disk that is owned by unknown in Mac OS X will show up as being owned by the currently logged on user on the console (or root if nobody is logged in), even though on the disk it is owned by unknown.

- proton