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I want to run a script on a Mac that is initiated by an item in Self Service.



Our user accounts are AD based, "Managed" and "Mobile" according to Users & Groups.



The script is going to create a folder on the user's desktop and then copy some log files to the folder.



I want the user to be be able to review the contents of the folder but, as created by the script, the user does not have permission to do so.



So: after the folder is created and populated, how do I chmod the folder so that it belongs to the user account? I'm able to get the userID and set it as the folder owner, but I have no idea what group to assign. Just changing the owner of the folder doesn't appear to give the user access to it. I'm doing something wrong, I just can't figure out what that is.



Can anyone offer some direction?

This should do it:



#!/bin/bash



userName=""

folder="/Users/$userName/Desktop/FolderName"



chown -R "$userName" "$folderName"



exit 0

If that does not work you can throw this at the end:



chmod 700 "$folderName"

@ryan.ball thank you! It was the -R on the chown that did the trick!

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