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?
> >
>

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