4.4. Administering Permissions

You have a number of different tools at your disposal for administering permissions. If you prefer the command line, you can use the commands chmod and chown. We must warn you though, due to the verbosity of access control entries, using chmod to apply ACEs can be a bit hairy. The easiest way to manage ACLs on an OS X server is via the Server Admin application (Workgroup Manager in OS X 10.4) as shown in Figure 4-4, showing the File Sharing tab.

Figure 4-4. OS X Server Admin Screen: File Sharing Tab

You can find the Server Admin application inside the folder /Applications/Server on any OS X server box, or any ...

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