permission question

[bill99]

Hello Forum

a manufacturer of a CAD Software does recommend to:

->To avoid this behaviour ensure that the media storage volume directory, has both the Operating
->System admin user and admin group assigned as the owners:

->For macOS:
->User = 'main macOS Admin user'
->Group = 'wheel'

Questions:
- Does that mean; I should add a group called 'Weel'?
- and that the user 'main macOS Admin user' should be added to the Group 'wheel'?


Thank you very much in advance for you help!

Bill

 

[bogdanw]

I am not sure if that's really necessary.
According to /etc/sudoers,
# root and users in group wheel can run anything on any machine as any user
root ALL = (ALL) ALL
%admin ALL = (ALL) ALL
Anyway, from Terminal, the command ls -ld /path/to/folder returns the permissions for that folder.
You can change them to the recommended values with sudo chown -R mainAdmin:wheel /path/to/folder
where mainAdmin is the name of the 'main macOS Admin user'
If you prefer an app BatChmod http://lagentesoft.com/batchmod/

 

[bill99]

I am not sure if that's really necessary.

Thank you very much bogdanw! As you expected it was not necessary, but nevertheless, I learned something

Regards,
Bill