I'm having a problem getting unix permissions to work on my Mac with Tuxera for Mac demo on an external SSD. I'd like to be able to use chmod and the like, but currently they have no effect. Here's what I've tried so far

First, I created "/Volumes/MyDrive/.NTFS-3G/UserMapping":



The last parts both are the SID that's set to my user profile on Windows 7. The profile was originally an admin profile if that matters, but was later changed to a regular user (SID didn't change though).

The UserMapping file was clearly recognized since it made root the owner of the files on my drive, as opposed to staff as it was without the UserMapping. However, chmod still doesn't work. All files are still 777 (executable), as opposed to 664.

I also tried mounting manually with parameters for static permissions and whatnot, but I couldn't get the mount command to work on Mac. "mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/disk2s1 /Volumes/MyDrive" gave an error "No such file or directory", although I positively did create "/Volumes/MyDrive", and "/dev/disk2s1" is the drive's NTFS partition. I read diskutil is the preferred way to mount things on Mac, but it doesn't support ntfs-3g parameters AFAIK. So I haven't been able to try non-default mount options either.

Any ideas?

Hi,


Are you sure ? The last number in group SID on Windows 7 is usually 513. The quoted SID looks more like a SID for Windows 8 or 10.

It should have been user 501, not root, nevertheless this proves the UserMapping is taken into account. When owner appears as root, this generally means that there is no matching SID in the UserMapping file, so this is the first thing to check.

The main point here is that I do not know what has been ported to the Mac. Maybe chmod and chown have not been implemented. Please use Windows 7 on a user account and create a new file in an inner directory of that user, then check the SIDs of that file. Create another new file from the Mac into the same directory, with an active UserMapping and compare the SIDs.

Regards

Jean-Pierre

Thanks for the reply!


I think this has been an error on my part since I used the SID of my user for both the first and second line. I ran on Windows to find out all the group SIDs on the PC and then tried replacing the second line's SID with each of the results. The ownerships of the files on my drive actually went right with some of the group SIDs - for instance when I used the SID for the group "BUILTIN\Users", the files on my mounted drive were correctly owned by my account and the group "staff". However, permissions are still messed up - 777 for new files, and chmod still doesn't work.

Also tried creating a new user account. The SID was identical to my previous account, except the last part was 1003 instead of 1000. Trying this SID on the UserMapping didn't change anything.


I wasn't too sure about this, but I created two directories on Windows, and a .txt inside them, and on the other directory and file I set my account explicitly as having only read&write permissions. Then created a .txt into both directories, and both .txt's showed up as the "Everybody" group having full permissions on Windows. It kinda looks like it's just chmod that isn't supported on mac.

^ Forgot to mention, some of the group SIDs I used that gave the right ownerships (not root) were

Hi,


Please forget about the group SID until the owner SID is correctly interpreted (if this is possible). For now, use the same SID for owner and group (ending >= 1000).

Please post the owner SID of that file (or post all the SIDs which appear in the Windows security tab for that file).

That is a possibility, but creating a new file does not imply using chmod, that is why I insist on creating new user files both by Windows and by Mac before trying further (new and user are important).

Regards

Jean-Pierre

Hi again

I now created the dir "win-test" on the drive on Windows, and "win-test.txt.txt" (oops) under it. Then created the file "mac-test.txt" on MacOS. Attached are the permissions/ownerships on each OS, and the UserMapping file's contents

Hi,

This is unexpected. To get the uid/gid on the Mac, please post the outputs of :

If no clue there, better give up...

Regards

Jean-Pierre

Here's the result of "id sampo", others don't work

uid=501(sampo) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),12(everyone),61(localaccounts),79(_appserverusr),80(admin),81(_appserveradm),98(_lpadmin),701(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),33(_appstore),100(_lpoperator),204(_developer),395(com.apple.access_ftp),398(com.apple.access_screensharing),399(com.apple.access_ssh)

UID and GID are the same I've been using earlier. Can't say I see anything wrong there

It seems to me the permissions problem might be a separate problem from user mappings. Either way this is starting to look like a hopeless effort for me so I'm gonna have to find some way to work around this unless somebody can shed more light on the matter.

Thanks for all the help!

Hi,

I do not see anything you did wrong. Looks like something has not been adapted to the Mac.

Regards

Jean-Pierre