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0 pointsArnavion2y ago0 comments

I don't know anything about MacOS. Normal users don't have r-x on /Users ? How do they access their own /Users/whatever homedir then?

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nicolas_172y ago

Normal users have r-x on /Users, but for that wildcard to work, they would need r-x on /Users/foo, /Users/foo/Library, and /Users/foo/Library/LaunchAgents, for every "foo" user in the system.

ArnavionOP2y ago

For that exact command, yes. But if `/Users/*` by itself can be expanded without root you can construct the list of files to delete without needing the `zsh -c`. Eg `for d in /Users/*; do sudo rm -f "$d/Library/LaunchAgents/NightOwlUpdater.plist"; done`

It's a minor point overall. I was just checking if MacOS had something else going on with its file permissions.

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nicolas_172y ago

Normal users have r-x on /Users, but for that wildcard to work, they would need r-x on /Users/foo, /Users/foo/Library, and /Users/foo/Library/LaunchAgents, for every "foo" user in the system.

ArnavionOP2y ago

It's a minor point overall. I was just checking if MacOS had something else going on with its file permissions.

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