Re: Re: Re: [pavlik to poogimmal]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 abiryan@ryand.net wrote:

> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 01:20:02 +0200
> From: abiryan@ryand.net
> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: [iso-8859-1] 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?

Ah right this is clearer. To reiterate what Ryan is saying:

You dont need admin priviledges to install Abiword
but if you do not install as admin then abiword will only be available for
one user.

If you want abiword to be available for all users then you must be the
administrator.

> > We know... patches are accepted :) We have only limited resources that
> > are stretched to its limits already.

I'm not sure you realise quite how limited our resources are. You should
definately read the following document,
http://www.abisource.com/support/expectations.phtml

- Alan

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Received on Thu Aug 18 01:54:10 2005