Re: Storing licence info (other than NSUserDefaults)
Re: Storing licence info (other than NSUserDefaults)
- Subject: Re: Storing licence info (other than NSUserDefaults)
- From: j o a r <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:23:55 -0800
On Dec 30, 2007, at 3:50 AM, Keith Blount wrote:
I want to keep this as the standard place for the
licence. However, a university has just bought 70
licences for their English department, and in this
situation the user defaults solution doesn't work
well, given that all of their staff and students have
different accounts, so they would need the licence
multiple times on every machine.
Check the CFPreferences API for a way to access shared preferences.
One solution would be first to check for the licence
info in /Library/Application Support before defaulting
to the standard ~/Library/Preferences. This would mean
installing the licence on all 70 machines
individually, still, though (but at least it wouldn't
entail doing so for each individual user).
One way to do it would be to make sure that all computers mount a
shared volume at something like:
/Network/Library
...and then use the CFPreferences APIs to access a shared preference
file.
There are several reasons why this might not be an acceptable solution:
* Adding such a mount point would require additional configuration on
their part, and
* It probably wouldn't work all that well for laptop users
That said, in some cases - Like in a lab setup - it could be made to
work, and would allow you to provide generic support for shared
licenses.
j o a r
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