Tom Piwowar
>>Some programs can be installed and used as a non-admin,
>>x-plane for example.  It isn't a general purpose
>>application like word processing, etc.  To run, it has to
>>open files for read/write from where it was installed.
>
> They tell you to not install it into the Applications
> folder. Doing that would cause a password prompt (unless
> your were user 500 or 501).

Actually, I don't remember ever getting a password prompt,
just an error dialog about not being able to write to a file.
I also don't remember ever being told not to install it as
an application.

> Looks like you give it a directory of its own and it builds
> everything it needs in there. This would circumvent the OS's
> password prompt. At most you would get a prompt that you are
> running something that was downloaded. You can say "yes" to
> that without entering a password. I for one would prefer that
> the OS did require a password for this.

I do get the dialog about "Downloaded from the internet"...

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