site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) Thanks, Peter Lee -- Peter Lee ptle@risingsoftware.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. http://www.risingsoftware.com/ Publishers of 'Auralia' - Ear Training and 'Musition' - Theory Training Ph: +61 3 9481 3320 FAX: +61 3 9481 3380 USA Freecall: 1 888 667 7839 _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... Thanks for the info! As a Mac OS X systems administrator, I find software that modifies files inside its own application bundles evil, and would encourage you to rethink that design decision. It makes it extremely difficult to store out malicious modifications from benign modifications. We're really not wanting to modify files inside the bundle... but we are deploying an embedded database server (Firebird) inside the bundle, that needs read / write access to it's security database when it runs. Security actually isn't used for the embedded version... but regardless - it needs the access! I guess it might be possible to put the database files in /Library/Application Support/Rising Software as well? I'd also urge you to consider making the file in /Library/Application Support/Rising Software read-only, and copying it to ~/Library/Application Support/Rising Software, where you can modify it in the user's home dir, but this is a matter of preference as long as the software can run with the /Library/Application Support/Rising Software file missing or damaged by the user. The file in /Library/Application Support/Rising Software needs to be shared amongst all users - it's a shared database of settings, scores etc. If _anybody_ who runs the software must have read/write access to these files, you must set the mode to 666 if they are actually files, and 777 if they are directories. You _cannot_ rely on all users being in any specific group. Ahh... ok... thanks for this. Just looking in Packagemaker - how does one achieve this? Is it something best done with a post install script? This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com