Overzealousness at its height, I suspect. Or a novice Administrator. Installing an application with "allow running for all users" can be done only as an Administrator if that is what he wants to control. It has *nothing* to do with giving away Administrator rights or passwords, and will not cause the user to miraculously gain new abilities to *install* other software. It is a standard Windows (albeit optional) application installation capability so that *all* users of a given system can run programs installed by others (typically Administrators!)
Clearly, some applications (Photoshop in his example ...) select the "allow run for all users" as their default (and the installer programs don't ask apparently!) - and this guy is too much of a novice to understand that, I suppose? Other applications use this optional feature in Windows installations, (to restrict usage to a singel user for example), and FrameMaker installation falls into this camp apparently. Probably because of a different installer program being used by FrameMaker. There are probably some white papers, or explanations, of this optional capability, available on the Microsoft web site I suppose. But this will take time to research. I think all he as to do ... as Administrator ... to fix this issue: 1. De-activate FrameMaker. 2. Uninstall FrameMaker. 3. Re-install FrameMaker - with "run for all users" allowed. 4. Re-activate FrameMaker. This does not empower the non-Admin user of that system to do other installations! Or to violate any security holes. Frankly, Adobe is not likely to "fix" FrameMaker to accommodate such a silly request. Z -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Scott White Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 12:40 PM To: Art Campbell Cc: FrameUsers List; O'Laoghaire Micheal Subject: Re: Framemaker installed under Administrator Ok I just got off the phone with this guy. He doesn't like my suggestions, Art's suggestion or anyone else's. He wants to control what gets installed and downloaded on a machine so he wants to do all installs and downloads as administrator rights. He doesn't want to give this person administrator rights to run the software in fear this person will download other things. He installed photoshop and InDesign under these rules and they will open up for the user rights. It's just Frame that won't. He wants me to get with Adobe and have them fix this or get answers to his problem. He just sent me a log dissertation on why windows administrators must do what they are doing -- make everything tighter than bark on a tree. Any other help appreciated. Scott White Media Production & EBC Manager Implementation Coordinator 210-704-8239 swhite at alamark.com
