Hi Liam - will depend on applications and where they store their files, but doing a chown in Terminal on the Applications directory will help you no end, and mine are all owned by root with group as admin. However, I wouldn't mess around with this unless you understand it (plenty of chmod/chown overviews on the web I believe). If you have the correct ownership (I am not sure root is, but it's what I have just found on my Mac, which suggests that it is correct under Leopard) you then have to ensure the permissions are relevant to your users. If the application needs to be read/write, then you need to make sure (using chmod) that either all users or a group that all your users are in has read and write. Some might only need read.
It's a bit of a complicated one, but I would say that yes, you need an administrative account to install all software as, unless you have all your users set up with administrative privileges. Sam might know a third party app that will correct all this at the click of a button for you, I expect - a bit of chown/chmod knowledge never hurt any Mac user though. CB On 13 Sep 2008, at 18:58, Liam Kelly wrote: > > Hi there guys > > I'm sure I;ve had this issue before in the past and also asked SMUG > before but I just thought if anyone could help me it might be > important to have it at the forefront of our SMUGing experience > > I was just wandering how I can prevent applications from requiring > registration from each user account - surely if I do it on one account > it should be fine for all of them? It's not like it's another machine > I've installed them on. Is there a way round this at all? Should I > have installed everything on an Administrator User Account (not as in > admin privileges!) > > If so then what's the best set up for a clean running Mac? An Admin > account and then separate user accounts created after the Admin has > all the software loaded into the Mac through it? > > And if so how to create this on a Mac with accounts already on it > without having to format and start from scratch? > > Cheers > Liam > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
