On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:34 AM, hugme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let me start with a little background. I'm a security admin so I have > quite a bit of security on my system. On my local system I always use > a user which doesn't have many rights, my user cannot install software > for example. If I need to install software I log in as root, check it, > install it, log out and then back in as my user. It's strict but it > works very well. > > When installing crome however I came upon a problem with this. Crome > installs to the local users directory, There isn't really a way to > install it anywhere else... when I log in as a non-admin user they > cannot see or run crome. However, as a local user I can't install > crome.
Why? Do you get an error? Chrome should install fine as a local user. Nicolas > > There are a couple of work arounds I'ld like to try but haven't had > the chance yet: > > Install crome then move it to a public directory so that all the users > can see it. This would be the best option however I'm willing to bet > I'm going to have to do some mucking with the kernel to let it know > the new location... as I've said I haven't tried it yet so I don't > know. > > Up the rights to a user, install it, then lower the rights again. This > is fine however I'm going to have to do it for all 7 users on the > system which is do-able but is going to be a pain. > > Is there a plan to change this yet? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
