On 31/10/2025 01:52, Chris Jones wrote:
It doesn't even need to be a separate volume or shared area, its enough
to not have it *directly* in your home area. There have been problems
with this previously, years back (I forget the detail) but is why I keep
mine in '~/Projects/MacPorts/ports', I have for years now, and I have
had no issues with the current base release with that area.
Good point, Apple does use much more restrictive permissions for the
automatically created subdirectories like Documents in user home dirs.
The permissions on subdirs you create yourself will depend on your
umask. We've seen cases where the home directory itself lacked search
permissions for other users, but that's likely something the user did
rather than the default state.
And yeah, I'm pretty sure the way macOS looks up group membership
changed at some point, because I remember the current (2.11.6) MacPorts
behaviour also happening years ago.
- Josh
