Mass permissions

hey people here's the problem i'm having and rough solution i seek:
(unnecessary incentive/background info:)
recently transferred my stuffs from my old G4 desktop to my dads hand-me-down powerbook, plus installed some stuff stored on my ipod...
the tedious thing is that most of it my primary administrator user hasnt got the permission to,
and as many times as i change the permissions in the info pane (requiring a password each time),
and as many times as i select 'apply to enclosed items' (with a long wait if their is enough contents)
i seem to always find something i cant fully access (say delete, to clear some space for example) which is by now getting real frustrating n leaving me with a poor performance <2gigs left on my hard drive.
i find that 'apply to enclosed items' is only effective to one level down and does not venture to apply to subfolders + further enclosed items etc...
im desperately unkeen on going through all my stuffs typing in passwords applying and worse having to remember what ive given myself access to so far:
does anyone know of any freeware or shareware which is good for applying mass permissions so long as you are the administrator and have the all powerful password at your disposal?
if not is there any terminal command that i could use to apply permissions to a folder all its contents n subcontents etc, that could save me eons of tedious hours?
thx in advance
peace
some guy
powerbook g4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 667 mhz, ~30gb hd, 384mb RAM

ali b: to be honest i found the stuff i installed to be irrelevant, i was pretty sure it wasn't a software clash and my assumption was that the permissions clash was because the stuff (photos, mp3s, documents etc) was transferred via ethernet from another user on my old computer, making it read only for my alien user, i believe... thx for the intent on helping anyway
nevermind guys, i found the solution myself searching on google...
in future, if anyone has the same problem I recommend a donateware application called:
'BatChmod' -- http://macchampion.com/arbysoft/
this allows the editing of executable permissions and when 'apply to subfiles and folders' is selected it affects all sub-files and folders (as tested by me), although 'unlock' must be selected to ensure this applies to files and folders with their permissions 'padlocked'... s'great stuff
happy days
peace

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Another Mass Permissions Change Topic

Alright - my wife set up my Christmas Present and after receiving it I wanted to change my shortuser name to match the one I used on our other systems to ease transition of files and ownership. I followed the instructions in the Information Bank about doing so - logged into root, renamed the home folder for the old name to the new name, generated new user account using new name, everything gets converted, then deleted old name.
Problem is, I have a LOT of files now in the Applications folders (specifically all of my preference files for World of Warcraft) that have "_Unknown" as the owner, and so I can't write over my old preference files, save new settings, macros, addon data, etc.
I tried selecting the enveloping folders, making myself owner, giving myself read-write access, then telling it to apply the changes to everything enclosed...BUT THAT DIDN'T WORK. I think this is because though it will adjust settings, it can't change ownership from _Unknown to me.
SO...how do I, en masse, convert everything with _Unknown as owner to have me as owner?
EDIT: As an aside - I have gone through and manually changed some of the files to have me as the owner, in case that makes a difference.
Message was edited by: Victor Aldridge

Victor Aldridge wrote:
Alright - my wife set up my Christmas Present and after receiving it I wanted to change my shortuser name to match the one I used on our other systems to ease transition of files and ownership. I followed the instructions in the Information Bank about doing so - logged into root, renamed the home folder for the old name to the new name, generated new user account using new name, everything gets converted, then deleted old name.
Problem is, I have a LOT of files now in the Applications folders (specifically all of my preference files for World of Warcraft) that have "_Unknown" as the owner, and so I can't write over my old preference files, save new settings, macros, addon data, etc.
that is not a problem. none of the preference files are stored in the Applications themselves. they are stored in your home directory which is already taken care of. same goes for your macros, addons data etc. and you don't need to worry about updating apps. any application that uses an installer to update runs the installer as root so the wonership on those files is irrelevant. and if an app doesn't use an installer (say, firefox) and is installed by drag and drop then you can just trash the old version and put the new one in when needed. no need to change ownership for that either. so the best thing here is to leave things alone.
I tried selecting the enveloping folders, making myself owner, giving myself read-write access, then telling it to apply the changes to everything enclosed...
No! NEVER use "apply to enclosed items on ANY system created folders, your startup drive or the time machine drive. that includes folders like your Documents folder, your Desktop folder etc. use it only on folders you made yourself. system created folders often have hidden ACLs and using 'apply to enclosed items" on them will propagate those ACLs to everything inside and buy you a lot of trouble. in particular, the main Applications folder has "everyone deny delete" ACLs which you've propagated to everything inside. not good. we need to undo the damage.
run the following terminal commands (copy and paste please)
sudo chmod -RN /Applications
sudo chmod +a "everyone deny delete" /Applications /Applications/Utilities
you'll have to enter your admin password (which you won't see) after the first command. that's normal.
BUT THAT DIDN'T WORK. I think this is because though it will adjust settings, it can't change ownership from _Unknown to me.
SO...how do I, en masse, convert everything with _Unknown as owner to have me as owner?
EDIT: As an aside - I have gone through and manually changed some of the files to have me as the owner, in case that makes a difference.
Message was edited by: Victor Aldridge

Tool for mass modification of KM / collaboration permissions

Hi,
do you know if there is a tool in portal for mass modification of permissions for documents, folders and collaboration rooms? It would be quite handy.
For example I have a folder which contains 100 documents and I want to change permissions for only some of the documents, but I don't want to change them one by one (go through the details dialog box for each document and change permissions).
The same question is for collaboration rooms.
Regards,
Ladislav

Hi Ladislav,
There is a KM report named Propagation of Properties, under Content Administration -> KM Content -> Toolbox -> Reports -> Mass Operations -> Propagation of Properties, which allows you to propagate the existing properties of a resource, to other folders and their contents or to individual documents.
Refer to [http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/EN/44/8d6f90d85c6572e10000000a11466f/content.htm] for more information on how to use this KM report.
Hope this Helps.
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Mass change file permissions

Long story but basically a couple of months ago one of my logins just suddenly dissapeared. Would not let me in with that user name...no good. Was still able to access the files going through the root, but when I created a new login I was unable to access the old login's files...only through the root. Is there a way to mass change the permissions so that the files are accessible?
much thanks!
aaron

Rippeddisc wrote:
Long story but basically a couple of months ago one of my logins just suddenly dissapeared. Would not let me in with that user name...no good. Was still able to access the files going through the root, but when I created a new login I was unable to access the old login's files...only through the root. Is there a way to mass change the permissions so that the files are accessible?
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if you don't want to recreate the old user,
to recursively change permissions on that home directory run the following terminal command from the account you want to access those files from
sudo chown -R $USER /users/oldusername
instead of oldusername put the short name of the user that disappeared.
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much thanks!
aaron
Message was edited by: V.K.

Mass movement of network file shares removed SHARE permissions

We had a 10 year old server that had two iscsi drives containing all our company's shared file storage, about 2.5 TBs.
A couple of days ago, we had to move those iscsi drives to a new server in order to retire the old server.
Through previous experience, we were prepared for the loss of our "shares" but not the loss of our security permissions. We documented every share and who had permissions to each folder. We were not surprised that this indeed occurred.
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Sue

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SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Shares
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If path will be changed, you will need to modify the keys before import.
If you have any feedback on our support, please send to [email protected]

Mass Copy directory contents and permissions from production to test server

am using SUNOS5.8.
I found out there is a discrepency between the production and test environments.
The discrepency is only with folder and subfolders contained in /admin/bin/myfolder.
The production environment is more up to date and the test environment is lagging behind.
I want to make both the environments same, as they should be.
Is there a single command in Unix that will overwrite existing folders/files in test server and copy everything including permissions starting from /admin/bin/myfolder from production server to test server?
Please also give examples of how to user the command?

I have come to know there are various tools available:
rsh
rcp
rdist
rsync
scp
sftp
ftp
ftp is a very tedious tool to copy all directory contents one by one.
cd DirA
mv * /path/to/DirB
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Creation of New T-Code for mass maintenance of SA

SAP currently does not have a facility to mass-maintain schedule agreements. The business alone has over 16,000 schedule agreement lines. Manual maintenance is very time consuming.
There are some key items of data that can require amendent for a particular vendor. The new program would permit the maintenance of:
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GR proc Time                           EKPO-WEBAZ
Firm Zone                                EKPO-ETFZ1
Trade off Zone                          EKPO-ETFZ2
Binding Grp                             EKPO-KZSTU
Conf Control Key                     EKPO-BSTAE
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Stock type                              EKPO-INSMK
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after that
if i select fields symbol button on left side
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pl let me know the approach to upload whether i go for eigther BDC or BAPI
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i can update for newly added fields in the user defined SAP Screen itself for porders
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i need to update for Scheduling agreements ?
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Thanks in advance
Edited by: Julius Bussche on Sep 3, 2008 9:56 AM

Hi Hariprasad,
If restricting certain fields using field selection option is not suitable for you, you can go ahead with the option Screen Variend
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[https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/Snippets/Transaction%20Variant%20-%20A%20Step%20by%20Step%20Guide%20for%20Creation]

HD Not Accessible to Repair Permissions

Hello. I hope you can help me isolate the error that is keeping my Intel iMac G5 from booting properly. I’m running 10.4.
It froze after I’d been backing up onto DVD/dumping old data (about 20GB worth). Whenever I tried restarting the screen would freeze on the grey apple logo, sometimes with the swirly icon.
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Finally I ran DiskWarrior and in 15 minutes it had cleaned out and rebuilt my HD. I thought I was home clear.
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It appears my /Library/Receipts folder is empty.
What’s more, if I try to run an admin command in Terminal, like
sudo diskutil repairPermissions /
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-bash: sudo: command not found
In fact, any way I try typing sudo I get a “command not found” message, even if I try to run other command like chmod.
When I type:
Users
I get
Users: command not found.
So I typed:
Echo $PATH
And get
/bin:/sbin:/usr/bn:/usr/sbin:/usr/libexec:/System/Library/CoreServices
I’m not sure at this point whether the fact that the DiskWarrior-rebuilt drive doesn’t show up among Startup options (when I boot with option key) is because of missing/broken permissions; an empty /Library/Receipts folder; missing users; or a missing path.
Any and all help is appreciated. Thank you.

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3. Switching cd / to my new drive in Terminal, I was able, I think, to change permissions (755) but when I open Disk Utility the drive is still not writable and "Repair Disk Permissions" is still grayed out.
4. I could not open Migration Assistant on the new drive via Disk Utility, so I copied it from the HD into its own folder on the new one, but am really confused about the whole Disk Image thing. If I create a new disk image and try to open it, convert or checksum it, it still is grayed out, I can never just open it. I tried running commands in Terminal to run that application on the external drive, pointing to the new folder, to the .app, to the contents, .dmg, and no commands seem to work, I keep getting the command not found message.
If I just run the A&I, I fear I'll lose my data which is why I wanted to migrate everything over before I did so. But if the user / owner permissions are screwed up and the only way to fix them is A&I, I don't know what else to do.
Is there ANY way to boot from the install, run Migration Assistant from the external drive (either through Disk Utility or Terminal) and copy all files from HD? If not, I guess I'll have to cross fingers and A&I.
Gee, I used to love my Mac ...

Network Volume Permissions Issue

I am having a couple of issues with my "Data" external HD volume that I've setup as a poor-man's NAS (attached via USB to my AirPort Extreme)..
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I tried some random "chown" terminal commands like the following, which i found browsing macrumors or something. Note that when I tried the second phrase, it said "chown: /Volumes/Data: Operation not permitted" Dang. So i think that this particular terminal sequence (which seems to have solved everyone else's problems in the past, will certainly not work for me). I even tried telling it that I am the "root" user, but I don't remember the command.
sudo chflags 0 /Volumes/Data
sudo chown 0:80 /Volumes/Data
sudo chmod 775 /Volumes/Data
sudo chmod -N /Volumes/Data
Here is some Terminal info, if it helps:
sddacraig13:~ Anthony$ ls -la /Volumes
total 8
drwxrwxrwt@ 6 root     admin   204 Oct 31 16:44 .
drwxrwxr-x 31 root     wheel 1122 Oct 24 15:28 ..
drwx------ 19 Anthony staff   602 Oct 31 07:06 Data
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root     admin     1 Oct 31 06:19 Macintosh -> /
drwxrwxrwx   0 root     wheel     0 Oct 31 16:44 MobileBackups
drwxr-xr-x   1 Anthony staff 8192 Oct 24 21:01 Windows
sddacraig13:~ Anthony$
Any issues you guys can think of? I did clean install OS X AFTER I had originally created the USB volume "Data," but my username and everything should still be the same... I think maybe my computer name may have changed (necessary for a school thingy).
Help! I'd like to be able to write to the volume while it as attached to the network...

This fixes just the symptom.
The cause is driving me nuts.
Whenever there is a little network problem (out of hands because of ISP)...
I looses my Volumes, which is still somewhat acceptable.
What is not acceptable is, that spotlight and whatever apps mean to write something onto my shares and whenever they are not available new folders are added under /Volumes/ShareName and so fourth.
I am tired of fixing it manually.
Because when I reconnect to my shares they'd be added as /Volume/ShareName-1 then as ShareName has been created by Mac OS X natively for some Reason.
In the beginning I thought my Backupsoftware does that, or Amok Exif Sorter or whatever else Application... but shouldn't be the Standardprocedure for creating and writing data that if the folder is not found to interrupt with an exception/error or whatever.
I find it not a very amusing practise to clean up the Volumes Folder every now and then for it gets spammed with rogue mountpoints that are in reality just directories locally for the real share was missing at the time something tried to write to there...
Whenever I miss out that that happened data gets corrupted and I have to clean up the data massup by finding the differences amongst and getting the newest Version etc...
I've been reading a lot of people having this problem and everywhere is described how to clean up the mass but nowhere how or when to fix the issue that it starts with, I mean stopping Mac OS X to create duplicates on its own not being asked to do so....

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2STF/8/3: S-ATA Bus 0 –Master
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Today i awoke the imac and it had frozen. Back to it's old tricks. Tried restarting and got grey screens, black screens etc. Repaired permissions. Ran another hardware test and getting the same error message about mass storage!
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The recall ended many moons ago, and it's a capacitor problem, they all need replacing, those in the power supply as well, probably.
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Mass upload of user photos in EP

Hi All,
I have to do a mass upload of user photos in EP. I tried it in two ways.
1.     In a network folder say
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PS: I already specified the photo type check and photo size check in System Administration à System Configuration à KM à CMà Global Services àUserPhoto
Somebody please help me.
Regards,
SrinivaS

Hi,
it seems the portal doesn't have permissions to read contents from this physical folder.
Try to import a sample photo with "apply checked conditions" unchecked in mass upload iView.
If that doesn't help then try to increase the trace level to INFO for this app in Visual Administrator and see what is causing
the problems.
The location is com.sap.netweaver.kmc.people.photo.admin .
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We have a situation where very many WFs are started for travel. The user has then completed the trip in PR05, and we need to logically delete all these WFs to get them out of users inboxes.
In SWIA I find a possibility for "complete manually" (but not sure how this works).
My question is:
Is there a way to mass cancel WFs?
We have the ID for all the WFs that we need to logically delete.
Any help appreciated.
/Kirsten

>
Amit Taur wrote:
> So it would be good if your write simple ABAP program which will check WF in open status and will compare if the same Trip is completed or not. If the Trip is completed then it will find parent workitem ie Top most workitem (Using various FMs like SAP_WAPI_* ) and then will complete it manually to logically delete the child workitems to remove it from users inbox.
>
> And you need schedule this report on daily basis to have a permant fix and to avaoid manual effors in the future.
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Mass Maint. of price list categories

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I have never used the assignment of licenses via roles since it doesn't fit in our licensing concept,
but:
1) I think there will be now difference except the way how you assign the license
2) I would prefere user licensing...
For sap a user typically has one role that describes all his activities. But in our small company we have many user with acivities cross applications. So we cannot use sap standard role concept. Instead I have created a structure based on our company organization and use multiply roles to combine a end user role.
Think also about DUMMY users (for example for background processing or mailing) - normally these users need permissions for the corresponding applications but you will license them as test users.
3) when you look at the predefinied values you will see that there is not really a great number of preassigned roles
4) you can add your own roles to the list of license/role assignment
5) no idea, just try..

Permissions messed up after changing short name

Hello all,
Following the directions provided on the support website (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106824), I successfully changed the short name of my account. I created a new user, used the root user to move the old files, and deleted the old account.
However, I've run into several permissions problems. On many files, the permissions are set to "_unknown" and do not have my name listed.
Is there any way to mass change the permissions of these files?
Thank you very much for any assistance!

Jesse M. wrote:
Here's what came back:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 6 jessem staff - 204 Jan 25 2007 Comedy MP3
drwxrwxrwx 10 jessem staff - 340 Apr 22 17:06 GarageBand
drwxrwxrwx@ 22 jessem staff - 748 Mar 20 2007 MIDIs
d--------- 23 jessem staff - 782 Sep 16 2005 Napoleon Dynamite Sounds
drwxrwxrwx@ 24 jessem staff - 816 Sep 20 2005 Pranks
drwxr-xr-x 9 jessem staff - 306 May 30 2007 Scot Radio Show
drwxr-xr-x 23 jessem staff - 782 May 15 2005 Scot's Music
drwxrwxrwx@ 39 jessem staff - 1326 Sep 26 2005 Seinfeld sounds
drwxr-xr-x 6 jessem staff - 204 Dec 25 23:20 Sound FX
drwxr-xr-x 14 jessem staff - 476 Nov 12 02:04 Various Audio Files
drwxrwxrwx 40 jessem staff - 1360 Apr 22 21:02 iTunes
That ND Sounds folder is strange. I'm thinking about just deleting it or creating a new folder.
No need. the command we tried before didn't work on it because it wasn't owned by you. Now it is so we should be able to change permissions easily. Also, I would recommend setting rwx permissions for you and no access for anybody else on everything in your Music folder.
To do that run
*chmod -R 700 ~/Music*
You can do it for other folders like your Documents and you Desktop folders.
I checked some of the files in the folders (for example, the iTunes music folder in the iTunes folder) and it looks like I'm the owner!
yes, the command I gave you took care of that.
Anything I can do about the applications folder?
what's wrong with it?

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Is there a way via AppleScript to change the ownership and permissions for all files (docs & folders)en masse? Can I do so regardless of original owner or permissions for files that are not password protected?

Yes, by invoking the do shell script command and the Unix commands chown and chmod. You might get better answers in the OS X Technologies fourm: http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=162.

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