On Jun 29, 2005, at 8:40 PM, Tony Meyer wrote:
[Martin Costabel]
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).
[Daniel E. Macks]
Ah, OK, so this solves the mystery. This is also a bug IMHO. The
installer should only do privileged things *after* it switches to
admin
mode by requiring the password. It should not require anyone to be
logged in at the console as admin user (although most people do,
otherwise this error would have been much more widespread).
Is there anyone reading this that has access to modify
http://fink.sf.net/index.html? It would be great if a note could
be added to
the note that's already there about repairing permissions that
explains that you
have to be logged in in this way.
Done.
(I also hit this problem, and repairing permissions didn't help at
all, but this
fix did. But not all beginners will know enough to be able to find
this message
that explains it).
Thanks!
=Tony.Meyer
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