Rev, Panther and permissions

[Devin Asay]

I have had an odd situation crop up in a Mac lab that is running 
Panther 10.3.2 and Rev 2.1.2. Rev will not launch unless the current 
user (usually 'macuser') is the owner of the rev folder and its 
contents. (For unix-y types the permissions are -rwxrwxr-x with macuser 
the owner and staff the group. And yes, I have set permissions 
recursively throughout the entire Rev folder.) For any other user, the 
administrator included, Rev starts to launch, but hangs at the splash 
screen while the error dialog flashes rapidly behind it. I have to 
force quit Rev to get out of this condition.

I have never had this problem before, so I checked another Mac that 
still is running OS X 10.2.8 and Rev 2.1. It shows permissions of 
-rwxrwxr-x with the administrative user as the owner and staff as the 
group. Any user that is a member of the staff group can launch Rev 
without problems.

Can anyone confirm this? Is there a fix?

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University