Re: Making an installer package (locations and, owner/group)
Re: Making an installer package (locations and, owner/group)
- Subject: Re: Making an installer package (locations and, owner/group)
- From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:35:19 +0200
On Oct 5, 2010, at 1:06 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
On Oct 5, 2010, at 11:34, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 05 Oct 2010, at 11:15, Antonio Nunes wrote:
1. Permissions for the apps. I want the user to be able to move/
remove the GUI app from the applications folder after
installation. According to recommendations owner and group should
be root/admin, but that results in the GUI app not being
relocatable by the user without entering an admin password. What
would be the correct owner/group and permissions to set in
PackageMaker for the GUI app?
Make everything also group-readable/writable.
I would disagree with both of you, based on what I see in my
Applications folder. I would say that you should get the same as a
standard installation would give you (i.e. drag&drop from a dmg),
which means that the owner should be the user. Apple installs its
apps with root as owner, but it does not make it group-writable. So
this proposal would not correspond to anything that normally
happens, therefore I would not recommend it. So unless your app
needs special privileges for some reason, I would say that the owner
should be the user.
It's definitely not a good idea not to set the owner and group of
application in /Applications to at least root:admin.
It's not because it's not what happens when you make a supposedly
standard installation (it's not an installation, it's a copy/move
operation) that this behavior should be duplicated with a real
installer.
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