site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com On Jun 23, 2009, at 6:24 PM, Peter Lee wrote: Regarding PackageMaker and setting up owners and groups -Greg _______________________________________________ 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... - Should I definitely do this in the temporary structure first - and not use the PackageMaker interface? - I was thinking that I'd prefer to not set the owners and groups within my temporary package setup folder - That's what I do - I set the owner, group and mode for all filesystem items and tell PackageMaker to leave them alone (--no-recommend via the command-line) not being a *nix guru, but I think that'd mean that I'd then need to cleanup using sudo or logged in as root? Maybe that's not so bad.... Use sudo. `sudo -s` will allow you to operate as root without enabling a root login. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com