[izpack-devel] Need a bit of info on the Mac

Hal Vaughan hal at thresholddigital.com
Tue Jan 10 23:55:35 CET 2006


On Tuesday 10 January 2006 05:33 pm, Pierre Frisch wrote:
> Where is the contributed panel? How does it work? Can it mimic the
> way the Apple installer works? i.e. start the install as regular user
> and authenticate when the install scripts requires it? I suspect that
> sudo is a bit narrow as the authentication depends on the security
> policy of the machine you are using.

I can't give you all the details, but I found SudoPanel in the panels 
directory with all the other panels and it's in the JavaDocs, although there 
is not much in he way of comments to help figure it out.

Hal

> Pierre
>
> On 10-Jan-06, at 1:59 PM, Julien Ponge wrote:
> >> So are there cases of installs where IzPack has to be done through
> >> sudo or as
> >> an admin user?
> >
> > /Applications is users-writable, so typical installations run fine
> > as a regular user and you don't need to sudo the JVM. However for
> > special cases you can need this. There was also a contributed
> > SudoPanel.
> >
> > --
> > Julien Ponge
> > http://www.izforge.com/
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> >
> >
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