On 2009-12-18, at 3:25 PM, Greg Guerin wrote: > Sandro Noël wrote: > >> it does not work, even if i select the root folder of my hard drive i still >> get the permission to rename it. > > > What effective user id is it running as? What groups is that user id a > member of? > > Run this Terminal command to identify the user: id -p > uid snoel groups staff _developer _lpoperator _lpadmin _appserveradm admin _appserverusr localaccounts everyone com.apple.access_screensharing
> Run this Terminal command to examine permissions: ls -ld / drwxrwxr-t 31 root admin 1122 18 Dec 20:32 / > > If the code isn't doing what you want, then please explain more precisely > what you want to happen. Give examples. Well for instance if I try to rename the music folder in my personal home folder using Finder The system/finder will not let me do that because the folder is needed by the system. The cell never enters edit mode. I can however write to these folders as I am the owner I want to reproduce the same functionality. cheers, Sandro Noel._______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
