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Prospect
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 2
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Setting ignore ownership on this volume
In our lab environment we have two partitions on our drives, one being the main Macintosh HD and the other being a student drive that they are allowed to do anything to. Does anyone know of a way to set the "Ignore Ownership on the Volume" setting through a terminal command so that I can set that option when the images are installed on our main drives?
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Site Admin
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Montreal
Posts: 32,473
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You can use the command 'vsdbutil' to do this.
See: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...20925051644480 http://www.macosxhints.com/comment.p...ts+me%2C&pid=0 Last edited by hayne; 02-21-2005 at 06:23 PM. |
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Site Admin
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Montreal
Posts: 32,473
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I point out the existence of a bug in Tiger relating to the file that stores the state of this "ignore ownership" flag.
This file is "/var/db/volinfo.database" and it should have one or more lines,each of the form of a long hexadecimal number followed by a colon (:), a space, and then an 8-digit number that is usually 00000000 or 00000001 This bug is described here: http://www.shirt-pocket.com/blog/ind...ing_for_a_fix/ If your /var/db/volinfo.database file is not of the form described, then one fix is to delete it (via 'sudo rm /var/db/volinfo.database') and then restart your Mac and then go into GetInfo for each of your drives and set the "ignore permissions" flag as you want. |
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