Can a Mac standard account access the hard drive?

Scythe · 16 Sep 2011 at 14:15

Hi, I've not got access to my Mac at the moment, so I can't see.

Does the standard account has access privileges to the hard drive (Mac HD) in 10.5?

goodl · 16 Sep 2011 at 14:27

Guest you mean?

Scythe · 17 Sep 2011 at 11:11

goodl said:
Guest you mean?

No just a standard user account (not admin).

theheyes · 17 Sep 2011 at 13:10

What do you mean specifically by access? Because of course it has access to the disk for it's own home folder. You get read-only access to most of the system files but a few you don't even have read permissions.

Scythe · 17 Sep 2011 at 15:27

theheyes said:
What do you mean specifically by access? Because of course it has access to the disk for it's own home folder. You get read-only access to most of the system files but a few you don't even have read permissions.

Yeah, I only want the user to have access to the home folder, and that's it. Can it be done?

theheyes · 18 Sep 2011 at 11:11

There are different kinds of access - read, write, modify etc. It might be worth telling us what you're trying to achieve and then work backwards. If you're worried about standard users accessing other users home folders or deleting system files then no that won't happen.