AW: How to make an app accessible for all users on Mac?

[Phil Jimmieson]

Hi Tiemo,
it looks like something is trashing the execute permissions between  
the Windows system and the Mac DMG. I always build my standalones on a  
Mac, so its not something I've come across. Presumably when Rev on  
Windows builds a Mac standalone, it gives the app it produces the  
equivalent of Windows execute access for all users (does Windows have  
this?), and when the app is then transferred to a Mac the different  
permissions system there is applied to match the Windows one. Or is it  
simply that when you copy a Mac app from a Windows file system to a  
Mac one, the Mac sets up execute permission for it automatically?  
Anyone know?

On 17 Apr 2009, at 14:09, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:

> Hi Phil,
> you hit it! Setting the x permissions with sudo, made it.
> Now I still have two questions:
> 1. When looking in the info panel - permission settings, I only can  
> choose
> "read" or "read & write", no "read & write & execute". Can I set the
> excecute permission only in the terminal by sudo or am I missing  
> something?
> 2. When creating a new app, is this way by setting the x permissions  
> with
> sudo the standard way to give everyone the permission to execute my  
> app, or
> am I missing something in creating my standalone (on Win XP and  
> transferring
> it to Mac to create a DMG)?
>
> Thanks for your coaching, have a nice WE!
> Tiemo
>
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>> Gesendet: Freitag, 17. April 2009 14:41
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>> Betreff: Re: AW: AW: AW: How to make an app accessible for all  
>> users on
>> Mac?
>>
>> Hi Tiemo,
>> directories have a "d" at the start of their permissions, so that's
>> ok. Some of the items inside your app folder are directories, and  
>> some
>> are files. It does look like the execute permission for that second
>> file you mention is missing for all users other than the owner -  
>> which
>> might stop it from running. If you use the chmod command I mentioned
>> in the previous posting it won't change the "d" bit of the  
>> permissions
>> of directories (the command *adds* permissions - that's what the a+
>> bit of it is for). As long as you're in the correct folder when you
>> issue the chmod command (the app's own bundle folder) it ought to be
>> impossible to damage any other applications or files, and you can
>> always replace that copy with another unmodified one to get you back
>> to where you were before...
>>
>
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