ACL’s on Home Directory

[vogtstev]

Greetings!

I’ve recently noticed my home directories that are created via CreateUser have ACL’s associated with them. I can see this in terminal by doing ls -l and noticing the “+” next to all my permissions, which I believe indicated ACL’s are present. So it looks something like: “drwx——+” for the Documents folder.
If I look at Get Info things seems normal displaying owner (me) with “Read & Write” and everyone with “No Access”

So I guess my question is, do I have to worry about these ACL’s? I haven’t noticed these a new out of box system so I was unsure.

Thanks!
Steve

[akinspe]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: vogtstev[/u][p]Greetings!

I’ve recently noticed my home directories that are created via CreateUser have ACL’s associated with them. I can see this in terminal by doing ls -l and noticing the “+” next to all my permissions, which I believe indicated ACL’s are present. So it looks something like: “drwx——+” for the Documents folder.
If I look at Get Info things seems normal displaying owner (me) with “Read & Write” and everyone with “No Access”

So I guess my question is, do I have to worry about these ACL’s? I haven’t noticed these a new out of box system so I was unsure.

Thanks!
Steve[/p][/QUOTE]

They are part of a new system you probably just didn’t notice. And since createUser does not create home directories it is not a part of this process anyway.

-Pete-

[larkost]

Just to amplify: 10.5 will put the ACL’s on any new home directory. This is normal. It will not be put onto directories that are already there (so migrated users might not get them), but since createUser does not create the home directly, but rather lets the system create it when you first log in, it will get the ACL’s.

[vogtstev]

Thank you. That is what I suspected, but wanted top make sure I hadn’t set something wonky.

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