On Oct 24, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > > I've often wished that I could wipe a user off the computer and have "all" of > that users info, apps, virtually every stitch removed from that particular > user off of that computer?
Well, if you fire up Terminal, and look in the /Applications directory you can see which users installed which apps: 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jun 28 2006 VPNClient.app 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 Oct 10 15:34 VirtualBox.app 0 drwxr-xr-x@ 4 johnson admin 136 Dec 6 2010 VueScan.app 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 May 9 2006 Web Signal.app 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 helpdesk admin 102 Apr 12 2006 WebCam Monitor.app 0 drwxr-xr-x@ 5 johnson johnson 170 Jul 21 2006 WebGrabber 0 drwxr-xr-x@ 3 johnson johnson 102 Apr 6 2009 WebKit.app 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 helpdesk staff 102 Oct 22 2010 WinShortcutter.app 0 drwxrwxr-x@ 5 johnson johnson 170 Jun 15 2005 Windows Media Player 0 drwxr-xr-x@ 3 johnson admin 102 Dec 21 2009 Wine.app 0 drwxr-xr-x@ 3 johnson admin 102 Dec 21 2009 WineBottler.app 0 drwxr-xr-x@ 3 johnson admin 102 Mar 4 2004 Wings3d.app 0 drwxrwxr-x@ 8 johnson admin 272 Sep 27 2004 WireTap 0 drwxr-xr-x 6 root admin 204 Apr 23 2008 Wireshark 0 drwxr-xr-x@ 3 johnson admin 102 Jul 3 2007 WriteRoom.app 0 drwxrwxrwx@ 3 johnson johnson 102 Dec 10 2008 Xerox 0 drwxrwxrwx@ 8 johnson wheel 272 Dec 10 2008 Xerox Support Centre 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 helpdesk staff 102 Mar 1 2011 Zenmap.app But mostly you'll see 'root' as the owner, mainly because most of those apps install something systemwide (they're the ones that ask for your username and password to authenticate during an install). Some of these were not installed by me, but by the user 'helpdesk', > Is there a way of only installing apps etc in the user only without touching > the rest of the computer? Well, yes, some applications offer to install applications for the user only, in which case they're installed in /Users/<user>/Applications, and all prefs, application support, etc get installed in /Users/<user>/Library IN theory all applications SHOULD offer this option, but in practice very few do. The multi-user nature of OS X is very rarely taken advantage of, imo. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
