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I want to store some files on a Macintosh (OS 10.2). They should be in the Public folder, but only accessible (= only readable) by certain people. Thus I would like to create a new group that has accession rights to these files. Strangely, the group command doesn't exist on MacOS X (chgrp does exist though). I downloaded the User Manager application. But the version for OS 10.2 was not really easy to use. Thus I used the NetInfo Manager.

I still use one of our ancient Macintoshs (Blue/White G3) as a web server (msbl.helsinki.fi). I had set up some access restrictions for some of the pages containing confidential data. And of course I forgot how I did it. Now I needed to figure out as I wanted to add some new stuff. For the general server, the accession is restricted based on individual .htaccess files in directories.

Apparently the kernel module to read hfs-formated disks is less functional than the one for hfsplus-formated disks. I managed to crash my system mounting an hfs-formatted CD. A good alternative are the hfs utilities (hfsutils). There is also an easy GUI for them called xhfsutil.