Permissions: "everyone" doubled, custom access

I'm having a series of permissions issues but I'll address just the urgent one here. Some files I'm attempting to edit and save won't because of (presumably) a permissions error. Let's call this file index.php. Its permissions look like this:
I can't save the file when it says custom. And you see how "everyone" appears twice — weird — and I cannot delete either of them. If I change the "Custom" one to "Read & Write" I can save no problem (no longer "custom access"). But I have two dozen files like this identified so far. If I change all the files at the parent folder level, thinking it'll remove the extra "everyone" it just breaks anything I corrected manually.
The folder permissions look like this
I tried the resetpassword in the Recovery utility trick with no change.
Help?!

I also got "everyone personalized" permissions after restauring a Mavericks system on my Macbook pro.
I finaly get rid of these permissions by using BatChmod, taking care of some precautions :
1) one folder at a time, deposited on the Batchmod window (not on the file window)
2) I usually unchecked the X permission of the all (or staff) group. It is necessary to click on at least one of these boxes. Otherwide Batchmod does nothing.
I hope that these permissions will not come back in few days !

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Time Machine Permissions Everyone is no access

Help. I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. and have incredibly difficult permissions scenario to solve on my Time Machine.
I was adding files to my iTunes Llbrary on an external harddrive which shares the same drive as my Time Machine backups.
When my automatic backup began it interrupted my file transfer and gave me an error saying Time Machine drive was no longer recognized, don't have permissions. This was never a problem before and I don't know what or when this would have changed.
So I changed permissions on one of my Admin accoungs to to read/Write access and ensured the other Admin account was the same.
I also changed the sharing permissions to the other two accounts so the would have read only permission.
Nevertheless, now neither of my admin accounts allows me to write to the drive or change backup settings. Even in unlocking the permissions section, options are still greyed out.
Subsequently, I realized that I changed the permissions for "Everyone" to No access. I thought this everyone referred to other users remotely getting into my computer. Now that it is changed I think this is where the error is.
The most horrible part of this is, I just realized that My time Machines has not been backing up for almost an entire year. My last retore point occurs for Aug 2011. So I can't restore to yesterday prior to these changes.
Is there a hack or a code I can enter into terminal to undo these new permission settings in my Time Machine?
Pleae help! Anything!!

Noondaywitch,
OK. Previous to this post I attempted the Repair through Disk Utility. An alert window popped up in the middle of the repair. I don't remember which. But I'm not going to attempt such again to prevent causing more trouble. Even still, the repari process seemed to complete giving me full repair status. However, my options for permission repair was greyed out, so I couldn't get any further at this level.
And unfortunately, I don't have another Mac available to me to try it out on.
Roam,
I pasted your code and sure enough received the following:
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk3
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk3s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Time Machine Backups    2.0 TB     disk3s2
So it seems were in luck. It is a GUID File system. But now what? Start over? Reboot?

Help - Lion "custom access" permissions mess

I should start with an apology... I know there are a lot of threads that dance around this very issue, but it's so much I can't make sense of it.
So I'm asking anew...
Here's the situation: After months of persuassion, I finally talked my wife into letting me upgrade her Macbook from Snow Leopard to Lion. After installing, I then ran software update and installed everything else recommended. Reboot and everythign seemed to go fine, but then when I tried to delete a few PowerPC apps, the computer kept asking for her password.
Wanting to find out why on earth I had to retype the password with every toss of a file, I looked online and found someone suggesting I had to log her out as an admin and then log back in. Why that would work, I don't know, but I tried it. Big mistake.
When I tried to log her back in to make her an admin again, I couldn't get the computer to accept her password. So I then logged out and tried to log back in with my admin account which is set up on the same computer. That worked to get me in, but still wouldn't allow me to upgrade her to an admin in the system prefs.
So I THEN found this "resetpassword" trick using the Lion Recovery partition and terminal. I did that and was able to restore her password and while there, I also "reset to default ACLs and Permissions" or whatever it says inside this utility, with the logic that repairing permissions has always been a decent failsafe fix.
Okay... after a reboot and we're back in... and I run into a new problem with not having permission to do much of everything.
So, I open the "Get Info" on the hard drive to look at the permissions at the bottom of the info window. It says I have "read only" access. I figure this must be an error so, perhaps foolishly (or should I say probably foolishly), I grant Read & Write access across the board, so it reads like this:
System - Read & Write
Wheel - Read & Write
everyone - Read & Write
And then, don't cringe, I apply to all enclosed items.
When this is done, I rebooted to the Lion Recovery partition and ran the Disk Utility "repair permissions" there, too.
Upon reboot... I remember Keychain First Aid and run that too. It has errors to fix but says it was able to repair them too.
Right now... it all appears to be working fine, though it says I have "custom access" in the Get Info window for my HD.
However, I can't shake the nagging feeling that I've just used a flamethrower to clean up the living room.
For instance, I look now on my own Macbook and see that "wheel" and "everyone" in the Get Info window and see it's Read Only. And yet, I have no permissions problems right now at all.
(Update: I tried setting hers back to match mine in the same way (via the Get Info window, apply, disk utility, reboot, etc.) and the permissions problems all came back. So I went and made it Read & Write for everyone again. However, this just can't be right.)
Can anybody tell me (in easy terms, please) what I can do to get it back to what it should be?
I've seen notes on a program on xnation.com that "fixes ACLs"... and a few posts with Terminal commands... but I'm hesitant to borrow somebody else's solution, just in case it's not so good of a fit or if I don't understand it.
What do you think?
P.S. I promise to rate good solutions offered to up your point totals.

Something like this?
System - Read & Write
Wheel - Read Only
everyone - Read Only
Yes.
...software from xnation.com that is designed to reset those ACLs?
I've never heard of it. You already know how to reset user permissions.
if the system seems to be working fine, does that mean something is still broken/in danger of corrupting or something?
You set wide-open permissions on all files. That's insecure, and some things won't work at all, maybe not anything you use.

"Custom Access" permissions are locking me out of my own computer!

"Custom Access" permissions are locking me out of my own computer!
I have a Mac Book Pro which I can no longer access, due, I believe, to a problem with disk and file permissions. When I attempt to open up the volume, which I am able to put in FireWire target mode and mount on the desktop of a nearby iMac G5, I get an error message saying: "The folder 'MacBook Pro' could not be opened because you do not have sufficient access privileges."
When I select the 'MacBook Pro' volume and run the Get Info command, I learn that the system, admin, and everyone else groups now have "custom access." I suppose that this newly acquired "custom access" is the reason that the volume icon now appears on the desktop with a lock at its lower left corner! Unfortunately, that lock is keeping me out, so I need help in finding the key back in!
How all this came about overnight is a mystery wrapped in a enigma similar to my getting pneumonia last summer. Coming down with both diseases would require telling long stories that would only have as their common objective the desire to be cured. I might have gotten the pneumonia at my college reunion; my laptop computer might have caught a cold last night when I ran TechTool Pro and optimized my volume prior to installing its eDrive today. Or, my laptop computer may have choked when I tried to add Disk Warrior to the TechTool Pro eDrive and inadvertently issued some command that resulted in my normal permission settings getting changed and rendering everything on the computer completely inaccessible to me. Who knows for sure? Right now, the cause doesn't matter: finding the solution does.
I used TechTool Pro to run a series of tests before (and after) I got locked out of my own computer and the volume passed all the tests for volume integrity and file integrity. TechTool also rebuilt the directory, defragged all the files, and optimized the hard drive into one, large, well-organized segment of files --that I unfortunately can no longer access!
*What I think I need now are some very explicit, error-free, Terminal (UNIX) instructions telling me how to change the permissions on an external FireWire volume called "MacBook Pro" containing Leopard Mac OS X 10.5.7 from its current custom access privileges back to my settings before my poor computer caught this disabling cold.*
I do have a SuperDuper clone of this MacBook Pro computer on an external FireWire, which I could probably use to relieve me of my pain. But, if at all possible, I would like to call upon that option only as a last resort for two reasons:
(1) I am not entirely comfortable that the clone is completely reliable at this moment. My last cloning operation last night (before this corrupted permissions problem occurred) did not complete itself, leaving the cloned volume in an unknown, or unstable, state. (2) I would like to use this problem as an opportunity to grow and learn more about the Terminal and UNIX commands.
I have read the relevant sections in David Pogue's missing manual on Mac OS X Leopard, so I am familiar (in theory) with the concepts he explained regarding ownership, file permissions, the root, Terminal, the CHMOD command, and the SUDO command. It's just that, considering the awesome power of the SuperUser Do command, I'm not all that confident yet that I could write the command(s) that could affect the state of my entire computer hard drive. So, *I'm asking for guidance from a UNIX guru to guide my hand this first time out.*
I know about the idea of safe booting up as a single user, but since I do have my laptop computer mounted on the desktop of my iMac as a Firewire volume, I would prefer to use Terminal on the iMac to fix the permissions on that mounted volume, called "MacBook Pro".
*Experts only, please*. Theories about what might have caused this problem would be nice, but what I really need is explicit command line code to cure this one. Since other people may occasionally encounter this problem of being locked out of their own computer, it would be fine with me if some knowledgeable guru wants to use this as a springboard to write a detailed tutorial on the topic along the way to the solution. Thanks.
bowlerboy_jmb

{I read that article you sent me to, Baltwo, but it does not seem appropriate, because the disk is not invisible. It's locked! I also went through all the discussions on flag changing you directed to me to look up, and I tried to apply something from there to my situation. But that's not working for me yet either. The topics there seem to be close enough to be relevant to my case, but none are exactly on the mark, and so far they deliver no cigar. Maybe I missed the one thread you had in mind from among the twenty I looked through: I can't be sure. You point it out, if you have one in mind. Anyway, in the absence of anyone providing me with specific Unix code or suggestions about my particular situation, I plunged ahead on my own, and I attempted to write some Unix code that might fix my problem. So far, I've had no success. This posting intersperses my comments along with the lines of Unix code which were displayed on my MacBook Pro during my recent attempts to tinker under the hood. My remarks are contained inside of curly brackets like { and } while the results of my Unix experimenting in Single User Mode on the laptop are presented without curly brackets. These were initially notes to myself, so I'm creating a post around my Unix dabbling to see if it triggers any feedback, corrections, and guidance for moving ahead. I'm stuck right now.}
date
Fri Jun 19 17:52:25 EDT 2009
:/ root# sudo chflags nouchg /
sudo: can't open /private/etc/sudoers: Permission denied
:/ root# sendmail: warning: valid_hostname: empty hostname
sendmail: fatal: unable to use my own hostname
:/ root# ls -l
{The screen filled up with rows of file names and their permissions, like...}
drwxrwxr-x+ 43 root admin 1462 Jun 16 04:36 Applications
:/ root# exit
{Nothing happens for quite a while, then...}
jettisoning kernel linker.
{...and then several lines of replies fill up the screen, ending in that same loop regarding no such file or directory found, in regards to mDNSResponder. I had tried the {chmod 775 > solution recommended by a user at a web site I Googled to deal with the mDNSResponder problem he had. The chmod 775 / command worked for him, he reported, but it does not succeed for me. The mDNSResponderline continues to repeat itself ad infinitum, so I must force the Mac to turn off by holding down the power button for several seconds. Upon restart in Single User mode, I observe that, as before, "Root device is mounted read-only," so this time I try to amend permissions at the root level with...}
:/ root# sudo chmod 755 /
{If I understand what I've just learned about Unix, this tells the Mac to give me permission to do anything, but to give all others permission only to read and execute. Unfortunately, the command fails. The computer again responded with the same lines that it gave me when I had issued the command regarding no user flags, namely:}
sudo: can't open /private/etc/sudoers: Permission denied
:/ root# sendmail: warning: valid_hostname: empty hostname
sendmail: fatal: unable to use my own hostname
{So, to summarize, I have a MacBook Pro which I am apparently locked out of and cannot change. The hard disk is not invisible: it will appear as an external drive when placed in Target Mode and connected via a Firewire cable to an iMac. I tried to use Terminal on that iMac to change permissions on the MacBook Pro, but permission was denied.
{So, I have tried to make changes on the MacBook Pro directly. I learned that it will neither start-up under normal circumstances nor via Safe Boot mode. It will, however, start-up under Single User mode. Based on my bleary-eyed crash course in Unix throughout all of last night and early this morning, I did gain some additional understanding about UNIX from some [free online books|http://www.scribd.com/doc/12747795/Made-Easy-Unix-for-Beginners] and articles, especially from a thorough and lucidly written article at Indiana University called [In Unix, how do I change the permissions for a file?|http://kb.iu.edu/data/data/abdb.html]
{Also, I followed the links to the Apple discussions on user flags, and I cherry picked the most appropriate solutions suggested there to see if they will apply to my situation. However, none quite fit. None have thus far succeeded. I think I now know how to formulate the syntax of Unix commands in regards to modifying permissions, and I'm willing to plow ahead and try things out. But I'm only a rank beginner in this Unix realm, so maybe I'm doing something wrong in that department.
{It just boggles my mind that someone can inadvertently be locked out of their computer without a way back in, so all I'm asking for is some trouble-shooting guidance to find the key back in. Anyone got it? Is this a problem that can be cured by writing some Unix commands to the system? Or, does the solution lie elsewhere?}
bowlerboy_jmb

Permissions = "Custom access" ? ? ?

How I got into this mess is a sorry tale, which is hardly worth recreating. What I need is a way OUT of the mess.
SYMPTOMS:
My G5 has a 500 GB boot drive, and a 500 GB internal data drive (only data; no OS). The permissions are so bolloxed up that Get-Info shows Sharing & Permissions as follows:
John (Me) = Custom
John (Me) = Custom
(unknown) = Custom
everyone = Custom
If I open a Finder window, andlocate the offending drive in Column View -- and click on it -- I get the following dialog: "The folder "DATA" could not be opened because you do not have access privileges."
If I run Disk Utility, and click on Veryfy Disk, or Repair Disk, the result is "The volume DATA appears to be OK."
But it's not OK. I cannot get access to the drive, or to the data on it.
I want to regain access to this data drive. Will someone please tell me, what buttons can I press, to make the devil go away?
TIA.
John

Hi,
I see you guys have got some insight into the whole "custom access" issue... and I desperately need your advice... in terms I can understand (I'm baffled by a lot of this talk about which permissions I need, etc.).
Here's the back story...
1) I had recently updated my Macbook Pro to 10.5.5. And I noticed that my Internet connection would either drop or run glacially slow. Meanwhile, my wife's Macbook ran fine. So I figured something was up.
2) I tried turning the Airport connection on and off, demanding a new IP, and all that. No luck. Zapping the PRAM once seemed to help. But very shortly we were back to slow speeds. Then I saw something online about trashing many network related preferences and the 'SystemConfiguration" file.
3) I moved the recommended items out of their locations in the System folder, parked them in a new folder on the desktop (instead of trashing them) and rebooted. No change. And then I thought maybe it would be best instead to just put the files back and look into it later.
4) When I put the files back, I noted that the system had created a new "SystemConfiguration" folder... which then moved out... and placed in the original SystemConfiguration folder. And that's around about where the real trouble seemed to begin.
5) I rebooted and discovered that my Airport card was 'Not configured" or something like that. It was as if the card didn't exist. Same seems to be true of Bluetooth. The system just doesn't see it. What's more, I get a "Network Pane" that's completely blank. NO ports listed in the column on the left... NO user name.. etc. Even my "local host" name had disappeared.
6) That sent me online and I found this article an on folders that have defaulted to a "custom access" discussion. And sure enough... the systemconfiguration folder I had dragged back in had the "custom access" label. So does the main folder/wrapper for my home directory. Plus, the same with many folders inside.
7) I have "Batchmod" but don't know, in layman's terms, what I should change the permissions to. Am I "user"? Do I "strip the ACLs" or forget about them? Is there some other better option?
8) I've seen people suggesting to go get a piece of the system network stuff from the pre-upgrade files. But I ran into another problem... related, I think, to all this. And that's simply that my Time Machine can't see the backup versions I did over a week ago.
9) I'm wondering if I need to do an "Archive & Install"... but then worry it won't work because the busted network settings would come over with it. (This computer was upgraded to Leopard with Archive & Install.)
10) So then I wonder if I should do a clean install... but I don't quite understand how to "just port back in the contents of your home folder." How does one do that without breaking the applications away from all the little things they installed so they could run?
I'm sure there's information I'm not providing, simply because I don't know what you'd need.
But what can I do?
Hope to hear from you soon!

Everyone Deny Custom permissions being randomly applied

What are the correct User Home folder permissions within Server Manager?
As I understand it you need _guest group Read Only in the ACL, with username Read Write, Staff Read Only, Everyone No Access.
Is that correct? And if so, why does the Everyone Deny Custom ACL permission keep getting randomly applied to the subfolders within the Home folders (but not the Home Folders themselves, or the Users folder). It seems to result in users not being able to access their own desktops or anythign within the Home Folder once logged in (but lets them log in).
It was all working fine yesterday, and nothing has been changed since then, yet all of a sudden this extra Deny permission is propagated everywhere.
Any thoughts?

It turns out that Everyone Deny is a standard permission set that is added by OS X once the user logs on. Thinking about it, it makes sense - deny everyone with the exception of the user.
Answered my own question, lol. Well done me.

Sharing and permissions, custom access, cant get user to have read and write acess

Hello everyone, i have a Netgear Stora NAS on my MAC, its located in the finder under shared, when i click on it i sign in with my user account and it gives me my folders to my stora, on one of my folder (Movies), i clicked get info and under sharing and permissions it told me i had custom access, i changed the privelages of the name,"Everyone" from no access, to read and write, when i did this, the name on tope of this (the main username) vanished. so ive been searhing on how to get my privelages back, i went to + and added new GROUP "admins" and it gave me my main username back but now with read only acess, when i try to change it to read and write it dissapears, PLEASE HELPPPPP, thank you!!!!
<Edited by Host>

I am not sure why you get that error. One thing you can do is a SMC reset then try to format it again. However that being said I'm not fan of WD external HD's primarily because we see a lot of troubles with them on Macs. Their internal HD's are fine so that narrows it down to their enclosures. If the problem persists I'd return the drive and buy one of the following:
OWC (www.macsales.com) Mercury Elite Pro series
Lacie Quadra d2 series
G-Tech G series
SMC RESET
• Shut down the computer.
• Unplug the computer's power cord and all peripherals.
• Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
• Release the power button.
• Attach the computers power cable.
• Press the power button to turn on the computer.
PRAM RESET
• Shut down the computer.
• Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
• Turn on the computer.
• Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.

Using PowerShell to set Custom Access Rights on a Calendar Does not set Free/Busy Permissions

We recently discovered an issue where, if you use Exchange Management Shell to configure custom access rights, the Free/Busy permissions do not get set at all (they remain as "None"):
$temp = [Microsoft.Exchange.Management.StoreTasks.MailboxFolderAccessRight[]]("ReadItems","EditOwnedItems","DeleteOwnedItems","EditAllItems","DeleteAllItems","FolderVisible")
Add-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity "conf-company-test:\calendar" -User "Company Calendar Management" -AccessRights $temp
Add-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity "conf-company-test:\calendar" -User "mpinkston" -AccessRights Editor
If you use a pre-defined "role" such as Editor given to mpinkston6 in the above example it sets the Free/Busy permission to Full Details. It would appear that using Add-MailboxFolderPermission or Set-MailboxFolderPermission is generic for folder
objects, and doesn't explicitly set the Free/Busy permissions. In the case of the pre-defined roles either the command is doing something special/different, or the permission checks later accept pre-defined roles for determining Free/Busy permissions. No idea
which is going on. If Free/Busy permissions can be fixed through PowerShell by some other mechanism/command, that would be great. If not, how do we go about requesting a fix/feature change in Exchange?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd298062%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx
(Please expand Parameters and read AccessRights to get a better understanding for what I'm describing.)

Did you try adding AvailabilityOnly or LimitedDetails in your $temp variable for Calendar folder? These would set it to "Free/Busy time, subject, location" or "Free/Busy time" respectively....
Add-MailboxFolderPermission - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd298062(v=exchg.150).aspx
The following roles apply specifically to calendar folders:
AvailabilityOnly View only availability data
LimitedDetails View availability data with subject and location
Amit Tank | Exchange - MVP | Blog:
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"You have custom access"??? (permissions issue)

Apologies if this has been covered before but I have quite a few folders that say "You have custom access" in the Sharing & Permissions section of the "Get Info" Finder window, not "You can read and write" as I would expect. Some of these really do seem to have unusual permissions, such as an "(unknown user)" entry, but others appear to have identical permissions to those for which Get Info says "You can read and write."
I suspect this is somehow related to some (but not all) of these folders originally being created in OS 10.1 (!!) & now in my Leopard file system courtesy of various Migration Assistant & Setup Assistant transfers spanning several Macs & hard drives since I played around with that ancient OS version.
Can anyone help me understand why this is so & more importantly how I can set these folder's permissions to the default, non-custom ones, which I assume will say "You can read and write" in the Get Info window?

Francine Schwieder wrote:
This whole issue is very convoluted and confusing, with new bewilderments (at least bewildering to me) turning up every day.
I agree completely! I keep hoping Apple will post some kbase articles or update Mac Help to explain more about the defaults & options, but so far the only things I have found are Mac OS X 10.5 Help: Sharing files on your network, Mac OS X 10.5 Help: Setting file-sharing options, & similar "lightweight" instructions which really don't say much more than I can discover by just poking around on my own.
For myself, I simply gave up, cloned my Leopard install to the disk I had been using for Time Machine, and did an erase and install, then let the migration assistant that pops up as the install finishes copy what it wished how it wished from the cloned system. At least things now look consistent: no more "unknown" files, no ACLs where none should be in my home folder, all new files are saved to the apparent new standard: user francine uid 501, group staff gid 20 (of course yesterday I found out even that isn't as straight-forward as one might think, I'll spare your the details).
Ironically perhaps, my Leopard install was done the same way (using Setup Assistant to copy everything possible from my Tiger clone, which is what I think you mean you used here) & it *did not* cause Spotlight to start indexing the Leopard volume or resolve any of the "unknown user" issues for me. This may have been because I messed around with permissions settings on some of my document files on the Tiger volume long ago when it had an additional standard account (since deleted), so that account's UID or GID could have been attached to a few files.
Just to muddy the waters even more, I've discovered a file (/Library/Preferences/com.apple.preferences.accounts.plist) that contains an array of four essential properties of every account I've ever deleted since installing Tiger: the "UniqueID" (which appears to be the UID), the short & long user names, & the date deleted. This file apparently is created anew each time an account is deleted (except curiously its creation date is exactly one day later than that of the last account deletion) but it clearly includes the info from previous versions.
Annoyingly, the Sharing Only user that I added that (I think) caused Spotlight to start indexing did not have the UID (& thus GID) of the deleted account I mentioned above, so the theory that the old account had something to do with it now looks dubious at best.
The more I study this, the less it makes any sense.

Custom Access File Permissions

I"m using Snow Leopard Server 10.6.8, and we've been having some permission problems. If you go into a folder that has read-write access and open a file and make a change in the file, the system requires you to save it as a new file rather than just letting you save it and replace the existing files. I've found that the files that have this issue are setup with "Custom Access" showing in their permissions section under "Get Info". I don't know why or how it creates Custom Access but I'd like to be able to change it or make the server stop doing it. Any solutions? Thanks.

I've just upgraded to Snow Leopard (don't laugh...I know I'm a dinosaur..) and sometimes I need to over-write a file 10 or more times when I'm doing corrections. It saves as a new file and adds another '.' at the end which is extremely frustrating!
Any help on how to go back to the old 'do you want to replace this file' box would be gratefully received!
Thanks...
Take care
Marianne

Leopard install default permissions: Custom access

Hello,
I am a very new mac user. Only bought my first iMac 1 month ago. I really liked the experience so far.
I recently upgraded to Leopard, and i had no problems at all (no blue screens, or locked users).
The problem i am going through right now, is about user permissions.
If i do 'Get Info' of my primary hard drive (the one Leopard is installed on), i get 'You have custom access'. I was expecting 'You can read & write'.
I've read a lot about these permissions. I tried a lot of things but nothing worked for me.
To be exact: i am using a leopard installation now, which has been installed from an empty hard drive (before the installation started, i erased everything. Just to make sure there is no conflict with the previous version, tiger).
I've upgraded from tiger, clean installs, and fresh installs (like the one i am using now) all to get the same situation. I really hope this is not intended.
Seen as I am a administrator, i really like to control where i want to write.
I've tried the following:
-i used Tinkertool System to change ACL's. Finally i got the '/' to show me 'read and write' but i had to change the ACL for every file manually, and at a certain moment i couldn't start my system preferences.
-i tried the 'chown -R -N'. Didn't change a thing.
-i tried the 'chown -a# 0 username' (username is babyCreative). Got a message telling me 'No ACL present'...
Now i am working on a fresh format (so the permissions are still the ones, set by default). I can actually do the work i need to do, but i don't feel very 'okay' with this permissions-situation.
PS: what really bothers me is the following: when launching leopard for the first time, and checking those permissions IMMEDIATELY, it tells me 'Read and write'. Only later on, all of a sudden, it changes into 'Custom access'. (right now it already is 'read only, yet i am copying files on it)...
Is there somebody that can help me out with this?
Any help is much appreciated.
(excuse my bad english ;))
Message was edited by: babyCreative

This might be me turning crazy... but right now... My permissions on the primary drive have changed again... Permissions are now 'Read and write'.
when i check out the owner of the drive, i see 'root' is the owner of the primary drive.
I suspected to see my username there...
Anyway: right now my permissions seem to be okay... Will evaluate this during a few days, and post the outcome here...
(i feel pretty bad now: been wasting days to this... Only now realizing the following: patience is a virtue... (so far))
thx for you reply though

How to fix custom access so permissions will work

How to disable “custom” access setting on my hard drive which causes permissions problem?
This is on a 2007 MBP with most recent OSX, etc.
Here’s what I have tried based on posts I read on this forum:
(1) I logged into admin account and typed into Terminal the following:
sudo fsaclctl -p /Volumes/drivename -d
sudo chmod -R +rwX /Volumes/drivename
No go. Terminal does not recognize command fsaclctl
(2) I also tried into terminal
 sudo chflags nouch /Volumes/”drive-name”
chmod 755 /Volumes/”drive-name”
(3) I restarted with recovery disk and did repair permissions. No go.
I saw a suggestion to erase the hard disk and reinstall OSX. I will do so (but would rather not) if it will solve the problem. Any advice is welcome.

Try Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings
If that didn't helped:
Do a reset (Hold Sleep/Wake and Home buttons about 10 secs or more till Apple logo appears)
Note: You will not lose any data.

Leopard questions - Permissions and "Custom Access"

I just (reluctantly) upgraded to Leopard (only because I wanted to install the iLife 09 which requires 10.5.6), and then the Permissions fun started. Install went fine and so did the updates. Then I ran Disk Warrior (new directory, repair permissions, check all files/folders).
I tried to read all the posts I could find, but none dealt with these particular messages, so I thought I'd ask just to make sure....
2. I have hundreds of "ACL found but not expected", but all of mine are on:
"System/Library/User Template/" and then there seems to be every language listed.
2. There are dozens of "permissions differ on" and they all relate to Front Row (should be -rw-r-r, they are lrw-r-r). I haven't even used Front Row....
Can I safely ignore all of those?
And, while I'm asking questions:
Is the "You have custom access" showing in any Get Info window of any application a Leopard "feature" or what does it mean? When I first checked, I found that several apps (part of OS or third party) did not have me, the admin, with "read & write" access. Some had "read only" and some "no access", but all of them showed the custom access. I went through all the apps and made them "read & write", but the custom access remains. These are apps I use quite often such as Graphic Converter.
Can I ignore the "custom access" or do I need to do something about it?

2. There are dozens of "permissions differ on" and they all relate to Front Row (should be -rw-r-r, they are lrw-r-r). I haven't even used Front Row....
Ignore per Mac OS X 10.5- Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore. They are innocuous and will recur each time you repair permissions.
1. I have hundreds of "ACL found but not expected", but all of mine are on:
"System/Library/User Template/" and then there seems to be every language listed.
These are the result of upgrading instead of doing a fresh install of Leopard. They are basically harmless. Such errors in your Home folder can be repaired using the Reset Password selection from the Utilities menu after booting from the Leopard installer DVD. Check the bottom option to Reset ACLs and click the button. Do not make any other selections. This only affects ACLs in the Home folder. To fix all such items means you have to perform an Archive and Install of Leopard then run the 10.5.8 Combo Updater. If you don't want to do all this then just ignore the issue.
The Custom Access is the result of the custom ACLs and simply means you've upgraded from Tiger which did not support ACLs while Leopard does.
In fact there are literally thousands of topics and replies on these two topics throughout the Leopard forums that deal specifically with these particular messages which is why Apple issued the above linked tech note.

Custom Access Permissions

I'm running 10.8.4 and have a Raidon NAS which I hope to use for my Aperture Librarys - It is all configured etc - I can see mygroup and login correctly - I just cant xfer files etc. the folder has "Custom Access" - were and how do I resolve this frustrating wee issue
Thanks in advance
Craig in NZ
The time stamp on the nas is now current date

I'd ask your question in the Aperture forum. I'm sure users there have put Aperture libraries on a variety of drives. If it were an iPhoto library the answer would be a resounding NO.
You might have to put the photos on the NAS and run Aperture in the "referenced' mode. Check the Aperature forum.
OT

Permission problem that won't die: You have custom access

After upgrading from Tiger to Leopard I had so many permissions problems that I backed up all my docs, erased my Macbook Pro hard drive (first time since I bought a Mac in 1985 that I have EVER had to do this), and installed a 100% clean Leopard install (no upgrade from Tiger). I updated everything through Software Update. Then I copied back several folders from my backups.
Permissions problems declined, but only from 100% to 80%.
The problems fall into three categories.
ONE: A folder seems to have normal permissions:
jimw(Me) Read and Write
staff Read only
everyone Read only
but at the top it says "You have custom access." (It should say "You can read and write.") That turns out to mean I can't edit, trash, or even move any of its contents without an Admin password. Copying the file into a virgin folder with correct permissions, then Applying them to enclosed items works sometimes but rarely. An ls command results in lines like this:
drwxr-xr-x+ 11 jimw staff 374 Feb 14 10:09 jimw's old home folder
0: group:everyone deny delete
TWO: Same as above, but there is no staff entry in the table and "everyone" has "Read & Write" instead of "Read only".
THREE: "everyone" appears twice in the table under Sharing & Permissions.
Other threads suggest that one of these "everyone"s is left over from Tiger, but they have scary suggestions on how to fix the problem (see below).
Yes, I have run "Repair Permissions".
So I logged onto these discussions and discovered that I have company -- LOTS of company. And there are about 1,334,786 different proposed solutions, including some hairy ones with typos (like putting in single quotes where double quotes should be -- in Terminal).
Carefully I tried a couple of these, and have wrestled the problem down to maybe 40% of its original size. And my heart leapt when one solution seemed to work on one of my biggest folders: sudo chmod -R -a# 0 FOLDERNAME.
But trying it on a bunch of other folders only solved the problem for the documents inside, not their intervening enclosing folders. If I create a virgin folder structure I can copy all the docs inside folder by folder, then throw out the bad folders en masse. But that's too much work! And prone to error.
How can I strip a bunch of ORDINARY folders of their inappropriate permissions so I can get on with my life?

I HAVE FOUND GOD AND HE WORKS AT APPLE IN THE APPLECARE TECH SUPPORT DEPARTMENT!
(First, let me apologize to people who find the above offensive on religious grounds... OK, now on to the details.)
I am posting here the steps that a certain support guy (accessed through 800-APL-CARE) stepped me through. The solution is so simple that I am beginning to doubt my sanity. It may not work for everyone, but it seems to have worked for me. I'm leaving this thread "not yet answered" for a couple of days just to be sure, but I can say that MUCH of my problem is definitely different and is apparently 100% gone. I'll follow up later to be sure.
Here are the steps this wonderful fellow stepped me through.
1.
Make sure things are not REALLY REALLY messed up. Click on your desktop so Finder becomes the active program. Create a new folder. Rename it from "Untitled folder". Throw it in the trash. Empty trash. If all these steps work OK with no demand for an Admin password, then your permissions and Users and Groups and all that are not TOTALLY messed up and you can proceed.
2. (step by step for the inexperienced)
Open your hard drive icon. Open the Users folder. Find your particular user folder (the one that looks like a house). Click on it ONCE to select it.
3.
Do a Get Info on your user folder (the house). Under Sharing & Permissions it should say "You have custom access" (which is normal for this folder and certain others, but not normal for an ordinary folder you created, say, on the desktop in step 1).
The little table underneath that should have 3 entries. Mine reads:
jimw (Me) Read & Write
wheel Read only
everyone Read only
As you've guessed, my username is jimw, so of course your username should be there instead of the jimw.
4.
Click on the little lock in the right-hand corner waaaaay at the bottom of the Get Info window. (You may have to scroll down.) Enter your Admin password and click OK. The lock icon will turn into an unlocked icon.
5.
A little popup menu somewhat to the left of the unlocked icon will now become active (rather than its previous state of grey). It has a little cog wheel in it, and a teeny triangle indicating it's a popup. Click on it and hold: you should see one or two greyed-out choices in that popup, and one active choice reading "Apply to enclosed items". Choose it.
Step 5 was the one that had messed up my drive on previous occasions, because (I think) it applied hidden things called ACLs to enclosed folders and files. But my support guy assured me that this step was OK and would fix my problem.
6.
You will probably get a dialog box asking for your Admin password again. Enter it and click.
7.
Wait. Breathe deeply. A progress bar will start spinning. Depending upon the size of your hard drive, it may take awhile.
8.
When the process finishes, close the Get Info window.
9.
GET ON WITH YOUR LIFE! THE PROBLEM IS FIXED!
At least mine is, so far. For you techies, the proof to me that a huge step in the right direction has been taken is that an ls -l command in terminal NO LONGER produces entries like:
drwxr-xr-x+ 11 jimw staff 374 Feb 14 10:09 jimw's old home folder
0: group:everyone deny delete
but instead produces entries like:
drwxr-xr-x 11 jimw wheel 374 Feb 14 10:09 jimw's old home folder
I am uncomfortable in Terminal and I don't really understand permissions and ACLs, but I think the significant differences are: no plus sign after the initial string of permissions, "wheel" instead of "staff", and NO SECOND LINE CONTAINING DENY DELETE.
Apple: Can't you produce a tech note explaining this process?? It's really simple! Even a grown-up could do it! (Apologies if you already have and it was posted a month ago and it's highlighted in flashing red text on the discussions.apple.com website and somehow I missed it...)

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