You're right, as long as a person can install into their My Documents folder, they can do whatever they want, but this is the same with anything, not just Eclipse. If that is going to stop them from allowing Eclipse, then they can't allow ANYTHING, because you can always get around strict policies like this.
As far as the 3rd question, I'm pretty sure there aren't any other requirements besides Java. On 3/20/07, Heald, Timothy J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are attempting to get approval to use Eclipse, CF Eclipse and Aptana > here. Currently we are not permitted and are all either using Homesite > or (blech) Dreamweaver). > > > > I was sent a list of questions, and have been able to answer most of > them, but I'm unable to find anything out about some of them. > > > > If you know anything about these issues, I would really appreciate the > help. Of course it's all due by tomorrow morning, in order to make it > in front of our approval board. > > > > 1. Can you disable the user's ability to download and install > plug-ins outside of the baseline that we install and approve? > > > > Obviously with what we do here IT security is a main concern. The > individual users have no rights to install anything at all. I know we > can block most auto updates at the router by blocking ports, but what > about manual updates? > > > > 2. Is there a way to prevent users from updating Eclipse and the > SDK? > > > > I was unable to think of a way to stop someone from even installing it, > I mean so long as you have the correct JDK (1.4) on your machine you > could always just unzip it to your My Documents and run it from there > right? > > > > 3. Is there any other necessary Sun or other third party things > that need to be installed in order to use Eclipse? > > > > I don't think there are, but I'd hate to miss something and have to go > through this process all over again. > > > > Again any help would really be appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Tim Heald > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:273196 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
