I am holding out installing Lion as long as possible, because of non-upgraded applications. Also, I am still master of my own Mac both at home and at work. But the IT department at our campus are threatening to install "administered systems" on office Macs, like they have on Windows side, where we employees will not have admin privileges and will only have access to our separate user accounts (and our local Macs will be run from a central server, like Win. Apparently this is possible). Any changes that requires admin privileges can only be done by the IT staff. 

I have warned all colleagues to resist this, and will try to hold off (happily they do not yet have enough staff to make this happen), but have earlier at least believed that as Plan B, I could still do quite a lot within my user account: Add any application that did not ask for admin password, upgrade them, add fonts to the User Account fonts folder, add keyboard layouts to the Library folder (which includes all so much more than pref files), and so on. However, if it is true that all of this is now centralized to the roots Library and outside the user account, then I would not be able to do any of these things, you will need access to the root Library / have an admin account to add any font or application, including using Mac App Store (which only communicates with the Root Applications folder).

Is this really so? One more reason to lock the doors to the IT department, if that is the case.

Knut




Den 19. aug. 2011 kl. 06:11 skrev Þorvarður Davíðsson:

> "Why hide ~/Library but not /Library, the similar folder located at the root level of your drive, which holds systemwide support files? Most likely because only admin users can modify/Library, and Apple assumes that a user with admin-level privileges will know what he or she is doing. Yes, I realize that’s a questionable assumption, given that the first user account on a Mac is always set up as an admin account."
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> These words can be found in an article in Macworld
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> http://www.macworld.com/article/161156/2011/07/view_library_folder_in_lion..html
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> The article is called: "18 ways to view the ~/Library folder in Lion"
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> Þorvarður