I should have also mentioned I have to support 10.4+ as this is for a casual home market where lots of users have older configurations.
Erg ________________________________ From: Stephen J. Butler <stephen.but...@gmail.com> To: Cocoa-Dev List <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 4:16:03 PM Subject: Re: Writable dir for non-admin user outside user's dir On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Erg Consultant <erg_consult...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Is there any location on the system outside the current user's dir that is > writable outside the user's domain? I need my app to create some files when > run under a non-admin acct that I need to persist across boots/logins. But > every permanent location seems to be locked except for things inside the > user's folder. I would have thought /Library/Application support would work > but no..... Looks like on 10.5 /Users/Shared is open for all to read/write to. However, in your app you are going to have to pay special attention to umask to make sure files you create are writable by other users. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/erg_consultant%40yahoo.com This email sent to erg_consult...@yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
