Hi Mark, yes it is signed. Haven't noticed that option yet. I will try that the next time I build a new installer. By now I have a bulk of CDs on stock, where I have to find a solution at the customers site. Thank good, it is only one customer yet Tiemo
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Mark Schonewille Gesendet: Samstag, 13. Dezember 2014 18:17 An: How to use LiveCode Betreff: Re: OT: Mac installer rights? Hi Tiemo, I assume your installer has been signed. Installer Maker's Help section is far from complete, but there is a suggestion there about starting the app with admin rights. You might try that. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Installer Maker for LiveCode: http://qery.us/468 Buy my new book "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner" http://qery.us/3fi LiveCode on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ On 12/13/2014 18:02, J. Landman Gay wrote: > The user probably has their security settings set to the default, which > disallows installation except from the Mac App Store. The second level of > security allows third party installations but only if they are code signed. > The third level allows anything. > > You can tell the user to change the setting to allow installation from > anywhere,. For a novice user this can compromise the security of the machine, > so they may want to set it back to the default after installation. > > On December 13, 2014 5:10:00 AM CST, Tiemo Hollmann TB <toolb...@kestner.de> > wrote: >> Hi Jacque, >> thanks for your comments. That is funny, because I am using Mark >>Schonewilles Installer Maker since years without any problems and also >>with this product it installs my LC prog as expected on all of my >>clients Macs from OS X 10.5 to 10.10. This is the only one (on >>10.9.5), where this phenomenon happened, so I think there must be >>something being messed up on the machine. >> Tiemo >> >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im >> Auftrag von J. Landman Gay >> Gesendet: Freitag, 12. Dezember 2014 19:22 >> An: How to use LiveCode >> Betreff: Re: OT: Mac installer rights? >> >> On 12/12/2014, 10:08 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: >>> My question to the Mac guys: What is the difference concerning >> writing >>> rights when the same user creates manually folders and files or lets >>> an installer do that for him? Is there on Mac something similar as >>> on >> >>> Windows like "run as Admin" to try to lift the user rights? Or is >> here >>> something completely messed up? I have never experienced this before. >> >> It is part of the Mac OS sandboxing, which prevents software from >> writing files to locations outside of its own folders. This prevents >> malware from writing to disk in areas it does not control. >> >> Except for certain drivers and extensions, OS X does not use >> installers, and users do not expect one. The user simply drags the >> app bundle to the applications folder. You can zip the app if you >> like, and the user can unzip it and drag it into the folder. Or >> commonly apps ship in dmg files (a virtual device image.) These are >> easy to create with various Mac utilities such as Drop DMG. Most >> users are familiar with dmg files. > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
