Re: "First Run" installation of Application support stuff?

FROM : Rainer Brockerhoff
DATE : Thu Dec 19 23:33:14 2002

At 13:50 -0600 19/12/2002, Sheehan Olver wrote:
>Couldn't you just copy the applet from your .app bundle to /tmp whenever you run, and delete it when you quit? This way you don't need to worry about permissions (/tmp is guaranteed everyone-readwrite, correct?) Why do you need write access on an applet anyways?

But then the user will be asked for the admin password on every run!

I need write access to the applet only to "setuid root" it. Afterwards, no password is necessary.

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