Re: creating alias during installation
Re: creating alias during installation
- Subject: Re: creating alias during installation
- From: Bill Coderre <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:17:10 -0800
On Feb 13, 2007, at 6:58 PM, John Daniel wrote:
It would be nice to have a drag-n-drop-type installer that doesn't
need administrator rights but can install into /Applications.
There might be more to it than this, but I just asked Unix, and it
told me this:
[blackbook:~] bcbc% ls -dl /Applications
drwxrwxr-x 180 root admin 6120 Feb 12 22:30 /Applications/
Now according to this, only root and admin users can put things into /
Applications.
Dragging stuff is usually not much of an issue for most Mac OS X
users, since they usually have one single account and have admin set
on the account.
So if you had a "no authenticate" installer, it would run as the
user. This would work most of the time, but not if the user was not
in the admin group.
So it's incorrect to have a "no authenticate" installer install into
any location that a user might not be able to write to. If the user
is non-admin, almost the only place that they CAN write is their home
directory. (Almost)
The Installer is not enforcing this. Unix is.
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