packagemaker installs as non-admin
packagemaker installs as non-admin
- Subject: packagemaker installs as non-admin
- From: "Adam Fisk" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:50:56 -0400
As others have reported on this list, I'm getting errors installing for users without administrator privileges. The error in the logs is:
October 21 17:44:47 venkman : pkgReceiptMaker[2209]: 2007-10-21 17:44:47.764
pkgReceiptMaker[2209] Error 13 (Permission denied) trying to rename LittleShoot.pkg to /Library/Receipts/LittleShoot.pkg
I'm using the technique of installing to /tmp and using a postflight script to copy the files from there to ~/Applications, but none of that matters because the Receipt will never get written correctly because non-admin users don't have permission to write to /Library/Receipts.
As far as I can tell, the end result is that you simply cannot write PackageMaker installs for users without administrator privileges. Is that correct? If so, I really just can't believe it. There's so much talk about these workarounds to install to ~ and options in the UI to not require any permissions, but none of it means anything?
Am I missing something? Is there a way non-administrators can install any PackageMaker managed installer?
Thanks very much.
-Adam
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