{"id":1575,"date":"2013-03-19T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T13:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2013-03-19T13:14:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T13:14:30","slug":"ignore-permissions-on-this-drive-and-where-its-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=1575","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ignore Ownership on this Volume&#8221; and where it&#8217;s set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>vsdbutil has been depreciated in favor of using the diskutil function. I would check the posix permissions, ace entries, and file flags of \/private\/var\/db\/volinfo.database.<\/p>\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text default\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;\"><div class=\"text codecolorer\">[ZSH-4.3.17] ~ % ls -leO \/var\/db\/volinfo.database<br \/>\n-rw-r--r-- &nbsp;1 root &nbsp;wheel &nbsp;- 81 Apr 12 08:44 \/var\/db\/volinfo.database<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Next, check the content of volinfo.database<\/p>\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text default\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;\"><div class=\"text codecolorer\">[ZSH-4.3.17] ~ % cat \/var\/db\/volinfo.database<br \/>\n20555DDA8F2D8A98: 00000001<br \/>\n66E20B159476D13F: 00000001<br \/>\nE66EFB16214A9EA2: 00000001<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Note: the 00000001 means owners enabled and 00000000 means owners disabled. In my case, I have three external drives with owners enable. I have multiple usb sticks that have no entries in the volinfo.database. By default external filesystems are mounted noowners (ignore permissions) unless the volinfo.database has an entry for the device or the device has an operating system on it. Entries into the volinfo.database are made by either an interaction with the Finder&#8217;s Get Info window or with the command line.<\/p>\n<p>The volinfo.database file is a plain text file and can be edited by an admin user. You could remove the file or better rename the file then let a new file generate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>vsdbutil has been depreciated in favor of using the diskutil function. I would check the posix permissions, ace entries, and file flags [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info-on-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}