OT: Elevated admin rights or admin on Mac

[Mark Schonewille]

Tiemo,

Under any unix flavour, including Mac OS X, you can install software from any account, provided that you give the installing process admin rights (or super user rights).

A restricted user is not a standard user. The purpose of restricted users is that these accounts can't freely install applications. 

You have two options:
1) tell the customer that the software can only be installed under an admin account
2) allow the user to install the software for the current user only (changing /library/preferences/MyFolder into ~/library/preferences/MyFolder).

Depending on the restrictions, a restricted user may still be unable to install software, if the installer tries to install the software for the current user only.

In your case, I'd choose option 1.

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On 4 apr 2011, at 12:29, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am not used to the rights management on Mac, so I don't know where to
> start looking.
> 
> One of my LiveCode programs is installed in 3 steps.
> 
> 1.       Dragging the prog from the dmg to the app folder
> 
> 2.       Starting a tool on the CD to copy some videos to:
> /library/preferences/MyFolder
> 
> 3.       When starting my prog the first time, it creates an ini file at:
> /library/preferences/MyFolder
> 
> A customer tried to install my prog with a user with restricted rights. He
> was asked to "elevate to admin rights" (I just don't know the exact pharse),
> but step 2 and 3 failed. When doing the same with the admin user, everything
> worked fine. He told me that installing of other programs worked ok also
> with the restricted user and the additionally "elevating".
> 
> The difference to my "installation" probably is that step 2 + 3 are not any
> more an "installation", but standard program job. Probably I could change
> the library path to a user based path, but the the program would be
> restricted to that installation user.
> 
> My question: Is it state of the art on Mac, that you should be able to
> install every program also with a standard user, or is it ok to say that my
> program can only be installed by an admin?
> 
> Thanks for your experience
> 
> Tiemo 
>