Re: Question about file permission

2009-04-10 Thread Mark Thornton
Jeff Stuckman wrote: PS: This has nothing to do with UAC -- even if you turn off UAC you will still see this behavior. The Program Files redirection feature mentioned by the previous poster makes it possible for sysadmins to lock down permissions on application binaries, while working around the

Re: Question about file permission

2009-04-10 Thread Eduardo Castro
roken behavior of >> programs that write data to "Program Files". (You wouldn't put a database >> in >> /usr/bin on a UNIX system, would you?) Unless you're updating your >> binaries, >> there has been no need to write to "Program Files" since Windows 98 c

Re: Question about file permission

2009-04-09 Thread Tiago Espinha
since Windows 98 came > out > 11 years ago... > > > - > From: Eduardo Castro [mailto:est...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 1:17 PM > To: derby-user@db.apache.org > Subject: Question about file permission > > Hi, > > I have an ap

RE: Question about file permission

2009-04-09 Thread Jeff Stuckman
stro [mailto:est...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 1:17 PM To: derby-user@db.apache.org Subject: Question about file permission Hi,   I have an application that uses Derby and it is installed in the Program Files folder. To install the application, it is required an administrator

Re: Question about file permission

2009-04-09 Thread Tiago Espinha
Hello Eduardo, Windows Vista is a tricky operating system because of its UAC feature. The last time I had to fiddle with it, it seemed to have some sort of heuristics that automagically moved files created by applications from their C:\Program Files\ into a folder that was accessible by your curren

Question about file permission

2009-04-09 Thread Eduardo Castro
Hi, I have an application that uses Derby and it is installed in the Program Files folder. To install the application, it is required an administrator user. However, after installing, if a non administrator user tries starting the application, it can not write to the derby database, just rea