On Jan 17, 2007, at 1:08 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Richard Gaskin wrote:
J. Landman Gay wrote:
Richard Gaskin wrote:
I have an app which will be for Mac and Win, and maybe Linux
down the road, in which I need to store some data in a folder
which needs to be writable by all users.
Both Mac and Win provide common folders for reading data:
Mac /HD/System Folder/Application Support
Win C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data
...but in my testing here only users with admin privileges can
write to those folders. :(
What is the OS-recommended place to store common data which can
be written by any user?
I had exactly the same problem with a currently-shipping app. I'm
writing app-specific data to the two folders you mention above.
The only way we could work around it was to wrap our app in an OS-
approved installer and have the installer set the permissions for
our application support folder to allow access by everyone. The
app support/app data folders don't need their permissions reset;
only your own standalone-specific folder has to be set. For Mac
OS X, we used Apple's package installer. On Windows, most any
installer will do this for you.
Thanks for the input, Jacque.
But now I wonder: Is there a way to do this from within a custom
Rev-based installer? How does one trigger the OS X
authentication dialog?
Well, that's the deal. I couldn't find a way to do that without
using Apple's installer. Most users wouldn't trust a home-made
dialog that asks for their admin password; they want to see the
"official" one. Ergo, package installer time.
One thing you can do (and I have done this before) is to make a mock
duplicate of the authentication dialog and use shell() to do the
stuff that requires authentication.
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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