> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 09:48 -0500, Andy Bakun wrote: > >> * Edit /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist (use sudo) >> * Add the following two lines to the file, on the first line >> following the first <dict> tag: >> <key>NSUmask</key> >> <integer>2</integer> > > In the more recent versions of OSX, I think the .plist file might be a > binary "compiled preferences file", and there is way to convert it to a > flat-text binary that is thus easily editable. There is a program in > $PATH named something like plc or prefcomp or something like that (which > I found through tab expansion) that does this conversion, allowing you > to edit and then "compile" your changes back into the binary version.
Thanks Andy, it is binary on OSX 10.4. Issue solved: Start term sudo su plutil -convert xml1 /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist vi /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist add after first <dict> tag: <key>NSUmask</key> <integer>2</integer> plutil -convert binary1 /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist Log off and on Must be done on every client... and the NSUmask is indeed decimal, not octal. -- Ariën Huisken _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
