TS2972 how to reset home sharing
How do I reset home sharing in itunes, I don't know what computers, I put home sharing on, Most likely I had to reformat the hard drives, So they don't exist. I would like to do is set my account to zero.. thanks
In short, there is no easy way to enable propagation of ownership to files that are dropped into a home folder.
However, I use a bash script on or home folder servers to create/fix permissions on a user's apple home folder. The script will go through all folders in the user's home folder and reset the permissions and ownership to the correct values.
1. Copy the script below into a file (eg. fixpermissions.sh) using emacs, nano or your favorite editor.
2. Open a terminal on the machine hosting the home folder.
3. Change to the top level of your home folder tree.
Eg. If the home folder is /Users/jweston, change to the /Users folder <pre>cd /Users</pre>
4. Run the fixpermissions.sh script with the username to fix.
<pre>./fixpermissions.sh jweston</pre>
5. Done! Note: If the folder does not exist it will be created. Otherwise, the script will fix permissions on the current contents.
Here is the script...
<pre>
#!/bin/bash
if [ -d ${1} ]
then
#Home Dir exists, reset permissions
chown -R ${1}.admin ${1}
chmod -R u=rwX,go= ${1}
chmod -R go=rX ${1}/Public ${1}/Sites
chmod go=wX ${1}/Public/Drop\ Box
chmod go=rX ${1}
else
#Home Dir does not exist, create...
mkdir ${1}
mkdir ${1}/Desktop
mkdir ${1}/Documents
mkdir ${1}/Library
mkdir ${1}/Movies
mkdir ${1}/Music
mkdir ${1}/Pictures
mkdir ${1}/Public
mkdir ${1}/Public/Drop\ Box
mkdir ${1}/Sites
chown -R ${1}.admin ${1}
chmod -R u=rwX,go= ${1}
chmod -R go=rX ${1}/Public ${1}/Sites
chmod go=wX ${1}/Public/Drop\ Box
chmod go=rX ${1}
fi</pre>
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