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There’s a lot of misinformation and confusion surrounding the proper management of permissions in OS X. Discussions on the topic have been fairly heated since the migration to OS X from OS 9, which had very loose capabilities for delegating, assigning, and managing access to files and folders. OS X, in contrast, was a native multiuser OS and, as such, permission-based restrictions were, and still are, at its heart and soul.
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© 2010 Charles Edge, William Barker, Beau Hunter, and Gene Sullivan
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Edge, C., Barker, W., Hunter, B., Sullivan, G. (2010). File System Permissions. In: Enterprise Mac Security. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-2731-1_4
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