site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com [blackbook:~] bcbc% ls -dl /Applications drwxrwxr-x 180 root admin 6120 Feb 12 22:30 /Applications/ The Installer is not enforcing this. Unix is. _______________________________________________ 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... 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: 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) This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com