3 posts tagged mac acl

I found this terminal command for quick removal of ACLs from files and directories in mass. Found a need for this when restoring a system from a time machine backup that corrupted permissions on some files. (leopard 10.5.2) The restore added ACL’s to files that should never have them.The following works because one chmod will be executed for each directory, like we want: find .

Sport Relief (I should apologise for bringing you here by illicit categorisation and tagging, but I won’t. You might have wasted just 10 seconds. Hopefully you will make the choice to change someone’s world in less than a minute).

Recently I thought I had a great use for storing extended attributes. I needed to store the time a file had been updated by my file management system without effecting the actual file modifications times. Storing this information directly in the file metadata would ensure that it would not become out of sync with some external database tracking this information.