Re: Re: [pavlik to poogimmal]

"J.M. Maurer" <j.m.maurer@student.utwente.nl> wrote on 08/18/2005,
12:14:40 AM:
>
> On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 14:57 -0700, r coyne wrote:
> > Why does one need to install from an administrator
> > account? I can't imagine any reason why a word
> > processor should need system- or administrator-type
> > privileges, and requiring them seems like terrible
> > design. No doubt there may be aspects of a "standard"
> > full-scale installation that do require broad access;
> > but not everybody wants to do those things. The
> > principle of least privilege is important; when it
> > comes to computers, paranoids live longer.
>

Actually, you are confusing two different issues here. Running the word
processor doesn't require administrator priveleges, as expected.
Installation (a system-wide change), however, does require
administrator privileges, and this is desired (and necessary). One
doesn't want a limited user installing programs, this is in fact often
the reason that limited users are set up in Windows. If limited users
aren't restricted from installing software, which is a major
system-administration action, what use is the designation of limited
user?

AbiWord does work in such a situation, where the software is installed
by the system administrator, and used by any number of limited users.
I know, I use it this way on several Windows 2000 machines.

If for some reason the clean install I suggested (uninstall, remove
c:\program files\abisuite2, install again as administrator), please
file a bug. There would then be an error specific to your setup.

Thanks for using AbiWord!

Ryan Pavlik

> We know... patches are accepted :) We have only limited resources that
> are stretched to its limits already.
>
> Marc
>
> >
> >
> > --- Ryan Pavlik wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > poogimmal wrote:
> > >
> > > >we have a new gateway with MS XP media 2005 OS.
> > > >installed abiword 2.2.9 using admin acct,
> > > >and it runs fine.
> > > >then login as limited user,
> > > >and tried to run abiword and we get error,
> > > >"cannot find libabiword.dll. try to reinstall"
> > > >would not reinstall from limited user acct.
> > > >how to fix? the point is to run abiword in
> > > >limited acct for safety reasons.
> > > >so far, the limited users in this version of
> > > >XP are proving to be problematic.
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> > > >
> > > >
> > > You need to install from an administrator accoutn,
> > > and it sounds like
> > > perhaps the installation that is current is
> > > corrupted. Uninstall
> > > AbiWord, remove the C:\Program Files\AbiSource2
> > > directory, and then
> > > re-install from the latest 2.2.x version on the web
> > > site,
> > > abisource.com. This should fix the problem.
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Received on Thu Aug 18 01:21:12 2005