I was trying out a new web service that permits sharing files from the desktop
to others online. It does seem a bit dodgy, but I was curious about how it
worked.
Well after a few attempts to install it on a Mac OS X system I finally dope out
that it only seems to install and run as admin. That
On Jul 25, 2007, at 9:36 AM, William L. Anderson wrote:
Well after a few attempts to install it on a Mac OS X system I
finally dope out
that it only seems to install and run as admin. That is, I not only
need to
install it as admin (that's OK, ordinary users can't write to the /
It's a simple economics problem. The moment these companies and developers
lose sales (or market share) because their products require admin / root
privileges to run, is the moment they start to REALLY support it.
And the reason why there isn't such REAL demand (with the exception of crazy
BB, well yes I did gloss over the OS X admin and Unix root diffs.
And I agree that the install does create the first user as admin. That's a
problematic scenario.
Furthermore, I probably know too much, because I knew I wanted to create an
ordinary user acc't in addition to admin on my personal
William L. Anderson wrote:
I am flabbergasted. When I first encountered Unix in 1983 I was taught that
you
always run as an ordinary user, and only use admin (root) privileges when
needed. If OS X developers are running as admin, and building and testing
their
products as admin, well ...
