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A bunch of files have 777 permissions

I have been learning Python and Bash scripting, and I up to now I have given my scripts 777 permissions. Having learned more about how to set permissions, and knowing this is a bad idea, I ran the ...
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Cannot execute binary file on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5

I want to execute phylocon on a mac OS X lion but after changing the path and making the file executable, I get the error 'cannot execute binary file'. But the steps that I took to running the command ...
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How are default permissions determined (on OS X)?

My (limited) understanding of basic Unix is that any files that are created will be created based on the permissions of the creating user. In particular, the group assigned will be the creating user's ...
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What permissions should I set if I'm the only user?

I'm the only user on a OS X machine and am wondering what the best practice is for setting permissions on my sensitive files. Specifically, are there reasons to prefer one of the following -rw------- ...
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how to remove quarantine from file permissions in os x

I downloaded a .pem file and my Mac OS X (10.8.2) added an @ sign at the end of the file permissions. This is causing file permission issues. I can't seem to remove the quarantine flag. I even tried ...
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List all chflags file flags?

Is there a way to see a file's flags, such as hidden, schg, etc? I've got an rwxrwxrwx file that I can't edit, and I think a flag might be responsible.
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Permissions corrupted?

A few weeks ago, I installed Linux Mint on a USB flash drive. I used it to copy the contents of my HFS+ external hard drive to my Windows drive on my desktop. Then, I formatted the external drive to ...
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How to fix this mysql permission problem?

I'm trying like mad to get rails dbconsole to work (Rails 3.2.6, if that helps). The problem is that when I run the command, I get: gems/railties-3.2.6/lib/rails/commands/dbconsole.rb:81:in `exec': ...
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OSX : rmdir “permission denied” but directory removed

This is a question from a newbie trying to learn UNIX commands. I was trying to test the rmdir command by removing a test directory located in my Downloads directory. I have read and write rights on ...
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How do I make all current and future files in a directory readable by a certain group/user?

I have a "Drop Box" directory for students to submit assignments. Its permissions are set to "drwx-wx---" where all of the students belong to the group. This lets them write to but not read from the ...
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In Mac OS X Snow Leopard, how can one file's permissions be matched to another?

I need to make the permissions of a file exactly match the permissions of another file in OS X 10.6. I don't see 'getfacl' or 'setfacl' as suggested in some other posts for Linux. And, it doesn't ...
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How can I install programming tools in the root directory so that they can be used by non-admin users?

I'm running OS X and for security reasons my main account does not have admin privileges. How can I install development tools in the root directory so that they can be used by all users? If this can't ...
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Restricting access to files on an external drive

I was wondering how to restrict access to a specific drive in Unix on the Mac. I was thinking to do this in Terminal where I create a file like this mkfile 6k secure_access. And where secure_access ...
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Creating Directories: with Permissions

I need to create a directory that is RW to all users using chown. what arguments should I pass chown to get a file with those permissions? Or maybe there is an even better way to do it......
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No exec permissions on programs in /usr/local/bin

I have installed the newest Erlang from source. As the final step I have executed sudo make install Among other things, it placed erl link in /usr/local/bin, but its permissions are insufficient ...