Re: Subclassing NSUserDefaultsController

2009-09-26 Thread Thomas Bauer
Hi! Thanks for your response. Sorry, I did not point out clearly enough that in my case the code would run with root privileges. Thanks for the pointer to EUID. I was not aware of that... and that might be a solution. Independently - it still puzzles me that it does not seem to be possibl

Re: Subclassing NSUserDefaultsController

2009-09-20 Thread James Bucanek
Thomas Bauer wrote (Sunday, September 20, 2009 2:39 AM +1200): In some cases my application needs to modify and get the user defaults from a different user than the one it is launched under. Since this affects not only things done programmatically, but also part

Re: Subclassing NSUserDefaultsController

2009-09-20 Thread jonat...@mugginsoft.com
On 20 Sep 2009, at 10:39, Thomas Bauer wrote: Dear List, In some cases my application needs to modify and get the user defaults from a different user than the one it is launched under. Since this affects not only things done programmatically, but also parts of the user interface that use b