MacOS – How to give access to the user and _www

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I am new to mac and running a website through apache server.
The code for my application is being accessed by the _www user, so I set the ownership to _www user but then when I try to edit a file from netbeans I have to give the ownership back to my user.
I dont want to use the my application or netbeans from the root user but is there a way I can give permission to both myuser and _www user to a directory?

Thanks!

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To give a user or a group full access to a folder use

chmod +a "user_name allow list,add_file,search,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,writesecurity,chown,file_inherit,directory_inherit" /path/to/folder

You may replace user_name by a group_name.

To remove the ACL simply replace the +a by -a.

It's similar for a single file - the attributes are different though:

chmod +a "user_name allow read,write,execute,delete,append,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,writesecurity,chown" /path/to/file

Insert a -R for all files in a folder:

chmod -R +a "user_name allow read,...

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From the terminal you can use the chmod command to change permissions. In this case the command would be chmod a+r *. This would change all files in a folder. If you want to do this from the Finder, you would have to create a service. You could then select a group of files and change all of them at once. The instructions are given below.

Open the Automator application.
Select "Service" and click "Choose".
Drag the action "Run AppleScript" to where it says "Drag actions or files here to build your workflow".
Set "Service receives selected text in any application" to "Service receives selected files or folders in Finder".

Replace the code

on run {input, parameters}

    (* Your script goes here *)

    return input
end run

with

on run {input, parameters}
    try
        repeat with currentfile in input
            try
                do shell script "chmod a+r " & quoted form of POSIX path of currentfile
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        end repeat
    end try
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Save service as "Readable by All".
Quit the Automator application.

The service should have been saved in the ~/Library/Services folder under the name Readable by All.workflow. If not, move it there.

Now when you highlight one or more files using the Finder application, you can right click and select "Readable by All" to change the permissions.

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I'm not sure how to do it from Terminal, but you could use a tool like BatChmod to redo the file permissions (and clear ACLs). http://www.lagentesoft.com/batchmod/

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