AW: OT: Elevated admin rights or admin on Mac

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Thank you Mark and Bob for coaching on unix
Tiemo

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> Von: use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-
> bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Mark Schonewille
> Gesendet: Montag, 4. April 2011 13:18
> An: How to use LiveCode
> Betreff: Re: OT: Elevated admin rights or admin on Mac
> 
> 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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> 
> Mark Schonewille
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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
> >
> 
> 
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