Disable / enable ownership from shell

[Nigel Kersten]

On 06/03/2007, at 8:44 AM, Gregor Alessi wrote:

> I've searched the web for this a lot in the past, and was never  
> able to find an answer.
>
> How does one enable/disable ownership on a volume from a shell?
> In Finder there's this checkbox in the Get Info dialog. To do the  
> same via a shell, do I really need to unmount and remount the volume?
>
> Any pointer is welcome.

$ vsdbutil -h
Usage: vsdbutil [-a path] | [-c path ] [-d path] [-i]
where
         -a adopts (activates) on-disk permissions on the specified  
path,
         -c checks the status of the permissions usage on the  
specified path
         -d disowns (deactivates) the on-disk permissions on the  
specified path
         -i initializes the permissions database to include all  
mounted HFS/HFS+ volumes


I remember this took us a while to find initially too :)

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