News Accounts and access to their own folders only
I work for a school and I want to make different accounts for the students. I know how to create a user account, but what I want to know is if there is more than one user account on the computer, will they have access to their own folders only or will they have access to everyones folders? I would like them to only have access to their own folders they create?
How can I do this?
Thanks n advance
Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Leopard
Mac Pro Xeon
Select the folder, Get Info. Unlock the padlock at the bottom.
Add the user by clicking the Add button. Give them Read and Write access.
Click on the group entry (perhaps staff) and set it to no access.
Click on everyone and set it to no access (or use write only dropbox to allow others to drop files in).
Select the user and select Make (user) the owner from the Gear menu.
Remove yourself from the list.
Or, in Terminalchmod 700 /Volumes/ExternalDiskName/userFolderName
chown username /Volumes/ExternalDiskName/userFolderNameChange the path to the folder. For an easy way to get the folder name there, type the command, leave a space, and drag the folder to the Terminal window. It will fill in the full path.
For both methods, the order of operations is important. If you change the owner first, you won't be able to do the mode change unless you put sudo in front of the command.
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