At 21:23 -0700 UTC, on 2009-07-29, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:

> At 04:40 a -0400 07/29/2009, J. Stewart didst inscribe upon an
> electronic papyrus:
>
>><http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html>

[...]

>    "Unless you are doing system-level development, you should never need
>     to change anything in /System - changing /Library should suffice."
>
> So /Library doesn't require admin privs for any user at all, whether
> shell script or Finder? If that's the case, then I'm all set. :D

I think you should interpret that sentence in the context of the rest of that
paragraph... ;) Seems to me Apple is merely repeating its mantra of "don't
mess around with /System if you can achieve the same elsewhere". In other
words, this refers to permissions only in the sense that it is a general
warning not to abuse your powers once you have admin permissions.


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Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>