On Mar 27, 2013, at 1:28 PM, Wayne Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've done the "apply to enclosed items" on quite a number of systems without 
> difficulty. Likely over 200 Macs. Now with 10.8 that's the first thing I do 
> after installing the OS. With 10.8 it's mostly because there's a number of 
> apps and stuff that I have no wish to keep and the OS makes it harder to 
> delete them quickly.

<George Takei/>Oh my!</gt>

That is really not reccomended because that demolishes a lot of built-in 
security in Unix. OS X has it's permissions stucture for a reason; blindly 
giving various users and groups read+write access to the entire file tree is 
NOT recommended.

Things will work, but they won't work safely.


-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs


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