Question

I am developing a ruby on rails app on OSX and I am logged in as an admin user.

On my Windows box I am creating my images, but every time I copy them to the OSX box, the permissions are weak (understandably I guess).

So per photo I keep having to right click, info and give everyone permissions to read and write, or my web server wont serve em up.

What is the easiest solution? an Applescript to auto give it full permission? is there a setting perhaps cause it’s annoying to do it 25 times a day.

and yes I can use the shell with a chmod, but that’s still annoying.

Answer 1

Each process on Unix-like systems has a field called “umask” that controls the default permissions. It’s normally octal 0022, which means deny write permission to group and other. If you’re using a Terminal window to copy over your files, try typing

umask 0000

beforehand. Alternatively, leave a Terminal window open with the following bash command running:

while true; do chmod 0666 *; sleep 1; done