Hi Rimas, *; On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Rimas Kudelis <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011.02.08 22:32, Christian Lohmaier rašė: >> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Rimas Kudelis<[email protected]> wrote: >>> 2011.02.08 18:18, Christian Lohmaier rašė: >>>> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Rimas Kudelis<[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> 2011.02.08 17:46, Christian Lohmaier rašė: >>>>>> >>>>>> * You cannot install as regular user (you always have to identify as >>>>>> administrator) >>>>>> (authentication is done before being able to select a >>>>>> target-directory) >>>>> >>>>> [...] >>>> >>>> I did, believe me. >>> >>> What about the second drop-down here: >>> http://s.sudre.free.fr/Stuff/PM102_4.jpg ? >> >> Look at it for a few seconds, and think about it yourself for a while. >> There is *no* choice "ask for permissions when necessary". > > The thing is – I don't see the other options in the drop-down.
http://developer.apple.com/tools/installerpolicy.html > But I > remember reading yesterday (or maybe the day before it) that that checkbox > is there to enable/disable the password prompt. Yes, but then you don't get any, even when it would require a password/administrator privileges, and then the installation will fail. >> So when you want LO to be installable in /Applications, you need to >> chose admin authentification, but that means that the installer >> *always* asks for that, no matter when the user later chooses to >> install in his ~/Desktop in the later installer steps. > > I don't think copying an app from .dmg to /Applications asks for root > permissions, does it?. copying an app from dmg is completely different from the installer package we're discussing here. And yes, it *does* ask for administrator privileges, when a non-admin user tries to copy files into /Applications folder. If you only got one user account, you probably don't notice, since that user is administrator by default. >. If it does not, then permissions shouldn't be > necessary to install there too. The permissions /are/ necessary, but you don't have to deal with them when creating the bundle (the drag'n'drop "installer"), since it's regular copy operation and Mac OS X takes care of it and asks for privileges when necessary. Such a thing is not possible with the "package installer", there the one who builds the installer has to decide *beforehand* what privileges the installer will ask for. If you want the user to be able to install to /Applications, you have to require administrator privileges. But then a user who is not administrator, and doesn't have access to an administrator account to fulfill that requirement cannot install at all, even if the installer would offer a target-folder selection, since the user doesn't even get past the authorization. So when you want to test yourself, create a non-administrator user first. ciao Christian -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/l10n/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
