Michèle Garoche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Le 20 juin 2005 à 07:45, Marciano Siniscalchi a écrit : >> >> Note that I have created a non-privileged user, >> "marciano", who cannot "sudo", and a user with >> administrator rights, "theboss", who can. >> >> Last login: Sun Jun 19 09:52:29 on ttyp1 >> Welcome to Darwin! >> MargiePB:~ marciano$ ls -ld / >> drwxrwxr-t 30 root admin 1122 Jun 17 16:22 / >> MargiePB:~ marciano$ su theboss >> Password: >> MargiePB:/Users/marciano theboss$ ls -ld / >> drwxrwxr-t 30 root admin 1122 Jun 17 16:22 / >> MargiePB:/Users/marciano theboss$ id >> uid=502(theboss) gid=502(theboss) groups=502(theboss), >> 81(appserveradm), 79(appserverusr), 80 >> (admin) >> MargiePB:/Users/marciano theboss$ exit >> exit >> MargiePB:~ marciano$ id >> uid=501(marciano) gid=501(marciano) groups=501(marciano) >> MargiePB:~ marciano$ > What happens if you try to sudo (note not su) theboss, then install. > Or even better reboot, login as theboss, then install.
Right. Based on the permissions of /, the Installer can only work when the user who is logged in is in the group "admin". By "logged in", I mean to the Finder (there's no way to use su or sudo to alter the user who effects the Installer). dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
