[OS X TeX] MacTeX - a few questions

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 25 févr. 07 à 08:52, Axel E. Retif a écrit :

> I really don't see what the problem is ---/Applications/TeX is  
> owned by root with group admin just as /Applications/Utilities:
>
> drwxrwxrwx    4 root     admin      136 Feb 25 00:11 TeX/
> [...]
> drwxrwxr-x   34 root     admin     1156 Feb 18 01:06 Utilities/

Following an off-list clarification by Dick Koch, here's what seems  
to be happening.

The problem only appears for people who have installed gwTeX using i- 
Installer, *before* installing MacTeX: during installation, the  
folder /Applications/TeX has been created by i-Installer, to hold the  
application "TeX Distribution Helper" (aka TeXDistTool.app). However,  
this folder has been created with permissions drwxr-xr-x rather than  
drwxrwxr-x.

Now, when MacTeX is installed afterwards, it respects the original  
permissions defined by i-Installer. Which seem to explain the setting  
observed in my case and in a few others. Compare for example:

drwxrwxr-x    6 root      admin    204 Aug 24  2006 AppleScript
drwxrwxr-x   17 brunovoi  admin    578 Feb 14 09:57 Microsoft Office  
2004
drwxr-xr-x   14 root      admin    476 Feb 13 09:14 TeX
drwxrwxr-x   51 root      admin   1734 Feb 13 09:14 Utilities
drwxrwxr-x    4 root      admin    136 Sep 29 10:56 iWork '06

Bruno Voisin
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