• What Is A Plist File

What Is A Plist File

You can use TextEdit - in your Applications - to create the script and plist. Just make sure you switch to plain text: Format menu  Make Plain Text.

To set the owner and change permissions you should use Terminal in your Utilities folder. Easy steps to set the owner on a file: 1. Open Terminal and type (without quotes but with the space at the end): 'chown root:wheel ' 2. Drag the file from the Finder to Terminal - the path to the file should be added at the end of the command.

Hit Return To change permissions on a file: 1. Open Terminal and type (without quotes but with the space at the end): 'chmod 755 ' 2. Drag the file from the Finder to Terminal - the path to the file should be added at the end of the command. Hit Return To check the effective owner and permissions on a file: 1. Open Terminal and type (without quotes but with the space at the end): 'ls -lah ' 2.

Drag the file from the Finder to Terminal - the path to the file should be added at the end of the command. Hit Return The resulting line will show permissions first then owner, group, file size, modification date, file path. Permissions 755 should look like '-rwxr-xr-x' Permissions 644 should look like '-rw-r-r-'.

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