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Run Photshop Elements 3 from a non-admin account
Authored by: dtrevas on Nov 01, '04 11:14:46AM

I can't wait to get home to try this. I installed PSE3 from my User account and authenticated with the Admin id/password. (I can't remember exactly, but I believe this capability to install something into /Applications from a non-admin user account was introduced in Panther) and I could use PSE3 just fine, but Help is inoperable.

And, by the way, therein lies the hint: Help is no longer generic HTML, it is a customized version of Opera.

So far, my initial satisfaction with PSE3 is decidedly negative. Sure, it does a few more things than Graphic Converter, but it does everything in a more difficult and less intuitive way. Fortunately, if I get my rebates done correctly, it won't have been too costly a mistake.



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Run Photshop Elements 3 from a non-admin account
Authored by: thornrag on Nov 01, '04 02:25:21PM

Why... why on earth, why should an application like PSE3 require administrative access?

And so the erosion of the admin account password security begins. As people become more accustomed to hammering their admin account password into every dialog that pops up, even for doing things that should not require admin passwords, the mac will become less secure as a platform. How long before scripts start targeting PSE for injecting malicious code? If users are accustomed to putting in their password, who'll notice that anything evil is being attempted?

How is this acceptable?



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Run Photshop Elements 3 from a non-admin account
Authored by: ClassicUser on Nov 02, '04 06:14:19PM

I completely agree with the previous response: This is NOT acceptable.

THE answer to this problem is for customers who have purchased Photoshop Elements (and other applications?) to complain back to Adobe that their software is NON-FUNCTIONAL.

Any preference modifications should be stored in the user domain - NOT the machine domain. Forcing users to tweak ownership settings just to get the application to run, is incredibly wrong - and can lead to significant potential security holes in the future. This application is simply broken, when it comes to use in a multi-user operating system - which Mac OS X certainly is.

Please, everyone: Don't just "accept" when things like this creep up - reply back to the developers, and convince them to do things The Right Way™, for all of our benefit...



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