AW: OT: Mac installer rights?

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Hi Jacque,
thanks for your comments. That is funny, because I am using Mark
Schonewilles Installer Maker since years without any problems and also with
this product it installs my LC prog as expected on all of my clients Macs
from OS X 10.5 to 10.10. This is the only one (on 10.9.5), where this
phenomenon happened, so I think there must be something being messed up on
the machine.
Tiemo

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von J. Landman Gay
Gesendet: Freitag, 12. Dezember 2014 19:22
An: How to use LiveCode
Betreff: Re: OT: Mac installer rights?

On 12/12/2014, 10:08 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
> My question to the Mac guys: What is the difference concerning writing 
> rights when the same user creates manually folders and files or lets 
> an installer do that for him? Is there on Mac something similar as on 
> Windows like "run as Admin" to try to lift the user rights? Or is here 
> something completely messed up? I have never experienced this before.

It is part of the Mac OS sandboxing, which prevents software from writing
files to locations outside of its own folders. This prevents malware from
writing to disk in areas it does not control.

Except for certain drivers and extensions, OS X does not use installers, and
users do not expect one. The user simply drags the app bundle to the
applications folder. You can zip the app if you like, and the user can unzip
it and drag it into the folder. Or commonly apps ship in dmg files (a
virtual device image.) These are easy to create with various Mac utilities
such as Drop DMG. Most users are familiar with dmg files.

-- 
Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com

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