[izpack-devel] Need a bit of info on the Mac

[Hal Vaughan]

On Tuesday 10 January 2006 03:51 pm, Aaron Mulder wrote:
> On Mac OS X, if you try to install a program that writes to system
> directories or whatever, you get a prompt to enter your password (like
> a sudo, effectively).  I don't know whether the OS manages that any
> time an installer tries to do something that requires higher privs, or
> whether the installer needs to preemtively make some calls to prompt
> the user and elevate privs before attempting to do the protected
> action.
>
> Aaron

So if you're trying to install a program on the Mac with IzPack and it needs 
admin rights, the OS will ask for a password automatically?  In other words 
is installing on a admin/superuser account not an issue on Mac?

Hal


> On 1/10/06, Hal Vaughan <hal at thresholddigital.com> wrote:
> > For you Mac users out there, I have a question:
> >
> > On Linux and Windows I know there are some programs you can't install
> > unless you are root or Administrator.  What is the Mac equivalent of
> > this?  I know the Mac root account in OSX is disabled by default.  Can
> > any user install any program?
> >
> > I also know that for other flavors of *nix, it would be root, but are
> > there any other OSes out there that IzPack works on with a different name
> > for the equivalent of the root account?
> >
> > Hal
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