Re: Admin user
- From: news{@bestley.co.uk (Mark Bestley)
- Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:37:30 +0100
Tim Streater <timstreater@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I thought I'd be a good boy and create an admin user and remove privs
for me to administer the machine. It's a bit of a pain though, having to
authenticate even things like Software Update.
And then came Packet Peeper. When I was an Admin I just installed it,
but was asked to authenticate whenever I used it to start a new session
capturing packets. No problem with that.
However, installing it has proved interesting:
1) A non-admin user can't install it, even though this just consists of
dragging it to the Applications flodder. You authenticate, but instead
of an app you have a No-Entry folder you can't run.
2) Even if an admin user installs it, no other user can run it. Other
users, admin or not, get the No-Entry folder.
So, *you* have to install it (as admin), and *you* have to run it. How
do they make *that* work ??
Some badly written apps (Eclipse a few games and others) write to files
inside the application bundles. Only the user that installed that app
can write to this area by design of OSX.
Another odity on installing (which sounds morre like your one) is that
the app bundle gets messed up with different users owning different
parts, this especially happens if it tries to self update. In this case
the fix is to delete the application and then reinstall from scratch,
copying over an old version has given the No-Entry folder
If you are happy with the terminal do an ls -lR on the Application
bundle and see what the permissions are
--
Mark
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