[OS X TeX] Permissions

[Curtis Clifton]

On Jan 11, 2005, at 4:18 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 11 janv. 05, à 20:17, Peter Dyballa a écrit :
>
>> Am 11.01.2005 um 17:12 schrieb Bruno Voisin:
>>
>>> # set files to read only for group and others
>>> sudo find /path/to/your/texmf.local/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
>>>
>>> You might try this here, replacing /path/to/your/texmf.local/ by 
>>> /usr/local/teTeX/. Beware though,
>>
>> Don't only beware -- NEVER DO THIS! It would turn all binaries and 
>> other excutables in /usr/local/teTeX/bin and further to 
>> non-executables!
>
> I knew there would be a reason for applying this to 
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local but not /usr/local/teTeX! Thanks 
> for pointing it out. Would the replacement of 644 by a+r avoid this 
> problem?
>

It should.  a+r is a relative mode: "all add read access permission".  
644 is an absolute mode: Read/write for owner, read for group, read for 
other.

Curt

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Curtis Clifton, PhD Candidate
Dept. of Computer Science, Iowa State University
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cclifton

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