Marciano Siniscalchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Respondig to my own post, what finally worked for me > was logging in *at the console* as a privileged user. Not even > su <name of privileged user> did it for me---I had to log off, > relogon as a privileged user, and run theinstaller.
Correct. The Installer, like all .app Mac applications, runs as "whomever is logged in at the Finder". One can use su or sudo to run command-line things as an alternate user, but that doesn't work for apps. > OTOH, I can now > run Fink Commander as the regular user, and the program asks for > an admisinstrator password as needed. Sweet! Glad this is finally working. Thanks for bearing with our debugging of this mess:) 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
