macOS Permissions of /home

[lazydog]

Hi

I was wondering if somebody could tell me what the permissions for /home are on their system (10.5). I was trying to set up /home on my Mac to mimic a directory structure of a Linux server but hadn't realised /home isn't just an ordinary directory on 10.5.

May thanks

b e n

 

[Nutter]

My home folder permissions appear to be "drwx------". (Admin account.)

 

[Sbrocket]

My /home permissions are dr-xr-xr-x, owned by user root and group wheel.

 

[Nutter]

Isn't it somewhat irregular for your home folder to be owned by root?

 

[reh]

My /home permissions are dr-xr-xr-x, owned by user root and group wheel.

Seconded. (latest version of leopard)

Isn't it somewhat irregular for your home folder to be owned by root?

Note that this is /home we're talking about, not your user's home folder.

 

[Nutter]

Note that this is /home we're talking about, not your user's home folder.

Gah, of course. Don't mind me, I'll just find a corner to go dribble in...

 

[lazydog]

Ah thanks for all the posts! I can fix mine now.

b e n

 

[lazydog]

By the way, I found this link which might be of interest!

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5665487

b e n

 

[Sbrocket]

/home is not meant to be used for anything by the user in Mac OS X. The folder is hidden for a reason. If a folder is hidden and you don't know what you're doing, don't mess with it. OSX is not straight *nix - it is not a logical assumption to make that they would behave the same way. Seriously though, I can't see why people would think that using a hidden folder to store data in is a good idea.

 

[lazydog]

/home is not meant to be used for anything by the user in Mac OS X. The folder is hidden for a reason. If a folder is hidden and you don't know what you're doing, don't mess with it. OSX is not straight *nix - it is not a logical assumption to make that they would behave the same way. Seriously though, I can't see why people would think that using a hidden folder to store data in is a good idea.

I don't think you get it. For Leopard, Apple changed Mac OS X and put /home in auto mount. Before Leopard, eg Tiger, /home was a perfectly good directory to use. I need to use /home on my Mac to simplify development for work's Linux server which uses /home for lots of stuff.

b e n