[brickcam]

Hi all.

I have an external drive attached to my comp, and I want to deny access to its contents to anyone but my user (cam). So naturally I went to the terminal and wrote

sudo chmod -R u+w,go-w,go-r Pyrrhus/

which changed the permissions as requested, and now when cam is logged in he sees this:

Big-Slick:/Volumes cam$ ls -l
total 8
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Apr 4 07:41 Big Slick -> /
drwxr-xr-x 9 cam cam 408 Mar 26 10:45 Camtaneous
drwx------ 36 cam cam 1326 Oct 1 2005 Pyrrhus

You can see that only the owner is allowed any access to Pyrrhus. What's strange is that when I log in as another user, I see this:

Big-Slick:/Volumes guest$ ls -l
total 8
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Apr 4 07:41 Big Slick -> /
drwxr-xr-x 9 guest guest 408 Mar 26 10:45 Camtaneous
drwx------ 36 guest guest 1326 Oct 1 2005 Pyrrhus

...it thinks that guest is now the owner. Do you know how I can block out "guest" without having to unplug the drive when other people use my computer, and without needing to authenticate or unlock any folders when I'm logged in as the main user? Thank you.

[Gavin]

Make sure permissions are actually active on the external drive. get info on the drive and look at "Ignore permissions on this drive"

[brickcam]

Originally Posted by Gavin

Make sure permissions are actually active on the external drive. get info on the drive and look at "Ignore permissions on this drive"

That was the ticket. Thank you. I think it's ironic that my attempt to avoid the GUI and learn the guts was what prevented me from seeing that option.