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11 Oct 09

Mac Dev Center: Open Directory Programming Guide: Concepts

  • LDAPv3, Active Directory, BSD flat files, NIS, and the local DS data store
  • Search Policies and Search Nodes
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Mac OS X Manual Page For dscl(1)

  • This manual page is for Mac OS X version 10.6
  • dscl -- Directory Service command line utility
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11 Aug 09

LockHunter is a free 64/32 bit tool to delete files blocked by any processes

  • Re Rajkumar's comment, http://message.diigo.com/message/584600 - grahamperrin on 2009-08-11
  • For Windows only, not for other operating systems. - grahamperrin on 2009-08-11
  • In my experience, administering AFP and SMB/CIFS services, locks were most often due to client-side problems with Microsoft Office.

    Users were often unaware of the problems; all signs were that they had simply closed a file after working with it, but the Office application failed to unlock the file and/or its relatives — even after the application was quit and the client OS shut down.

    In most such situations — without appropriate signals from the client — it was proper for the file service to disallow normal routes to unlocking.     - grahamperrin on 2009-08-11
  • file unlocker
  • Windows
07 Aug 09

wectar — about

    • The idea behind wectar is the fusion of two worlds, dmoz.org (open directory project) and delicious.com.
      This fusion is seen by us as a mutual enrichment of two stages in the evolution of the world wide web

      1.0 + 2.0 = 3.0. Welcome to wectar, a pioneer of web 3.0. For sure not.

wectar | nectar extracted from the glorious web

  • "… fusion of two worlds, dmoz.org (open directory project) and delicious.com…" - grahamperrin on 2009-08-07
04 Aug 09

Ultimate Review List of Best Free Online Storage and Backup Application Services

  • Free Online Storage and Backup Application Services
  • Review List
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Into the Cloud: Our 5 Favorite Online Storage Services

07 Jul 09

SchemaWeb - RDF Schemas Directory

  • SchemaWeb
  • a directory of RDF schemas
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21 Nov 06

Infinite Loop: Mac Basics: Why isolation is a Good Thing

  • The quote "A user's Home directory is only accessible by the user that is currently logged into OS X" gives a false sense of security. - grahamperrin on 2006-11-21

  • A user's Home directory is only accessible by the user
    that is currently logged into OS X
20 Nov 06

Mac OS X: Using Your Home Directory

  • "Mac OS X requires users to save documents to locations within their individual Home directories" but it doesn't prevent users from saving their documents to the top level of their home directory (which is, by default, visible to all other users). - grahamperrin on 2006-11-20
  • Mac OS X requires users to save documents to locations within their individual Home directories

UT School of Information - FAQ

  • The first command makes your home directory group and world executable. 

Basic Unix - 4. File and Directory Permissions

  • anyone on the

    system may read any file (except for mail files), whether or not it is

    in their home directory

Default access permissions

  • Access permissions for your home directory are usually
    set to
    rwx--x--x
    or
    rwxr-xr-x.


WebHomedir

  • An explanation of world readable home directories. - grahamperrin on 2006-11-20
  • The public_html directory tree must be world readable in order to be visible
  • the home directory itself must be world readable with access mode 755

Basic Unix Tutorial

  • The top level ~/ of one's home directory is visible to anyone on the system. - grahamperrin on 2006-11-20
  • In Mac OS X, for example: to maintain privacy for your documents you should save them to ~/Documents - grahamperrin on 2006-11-20
  • under default protection,
    anyone on the system may read any file (except for mail files), whether
    or not it is in their home directory, though only the actual owner of
    the file may alter it. Directories are also, as a rule, open: others may
    list the files in or connect to (though not alter) most directories.
  • You own your own home directory, and, by default, this is set so that
    you can read, write, and execute it and everyone else can read and execute
    it. The default for files inside your home directory is for you to read
    and write them and everyone else to read them. If you want, you can use
    chmod to change the protection on your home directory so that "others"
    cannot read or execute your home directory, but this is not encouraged.
    It is better to change the protection on individual files. If you do change
    the protection on your home directory, you should maintain "execute" priviledge
    for "others". This will not allow people to see the contents of your directory,
    but it will allow some utilities like finger to work properly.
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