i want to restrict users in my network on sertain file rights on the hard disk (like read only or read and write only ) in windows its a pase of cake but on a mac i dont know were to look can anybody help me to gt started to find the security rights management

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Simple answer: "Get Info" on the file/folder and you can restrict access there. In OS X Server, there's some other options, but that's where you'll find the basics. You can also use BSD-style commands to restrict access at the command line.

Hi, h! Mac OS X is like a GUI running over Unix. MacOS9, MacOSXServer, and Unix allow the configuration of USER/GROUP/OTHER permissions but MacOSX standard seems to have left out the GROUP part (or at least it's not readily accessible). I've defined groups using NetInfo Utility, but I don't recommend it for most people.

If you're into UNIX, you can manually change permissions from the command line using CHMOD and CHOWN.

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