I work in a place where you need admin rights to install on Windows as well but that's a policy.
As far as the MacOS goes, it's based on BSD. Therefore if /Applications is owned by root:wheel (or something similar that's not the current user), you need privileges to "su or sudo" in order to complete the installation process. That is to say, the filesystem is requiring the elevated access which in my opinion is a good thing. One could/should be able to install in his/her home directory and not need such access and I have seen apps take that approach as well. Carl On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 5:57 PM Will Hartung <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 1:10 PM, Kenneth Fogel <[email protected] > > > wrote: > > > Yes, an installer is nice but all it should do on the Windows platform is > > unzip NetBeans in the folder of choice and add a shortcut. > > > > For some reason that I don't understand, and perhaps someone could explain, > the installer for MacOS requires Administration privileges. > > Being that it, too, is essentially a "zip file" (it's an application > bundle), I never really understood why it needs admin privs to install. > > Maybe it's some Mac specific thing. > -- Carl J. Mosca
