The users other than administrator can write to places other than userspace.. just not into directories like /windows and /program files. any place that has to do with the OS.
The actual error it's receiving is this: "Installation failed. Componet CromeGears failed to install. Detailed message: The installer encountered error 1625: This installation is forbidden by system policy. Contact your system administrator." On Sep 11, 12:17 pm, "Nicolas Sylvain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
