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Font Book and a font installation security issue
Instead of Quitting Font Book and restarting it multiple times, why don't you just Repair Permissions?
You are scaring people! The owner of /Library/Fonts is root, the group is admin, and anyone else can only read the contents of the folder. Check for yourself, after repairing permissions.
Font Book and a font installation security issue
Have you even tried examining the substance of the hint before jumping to criticism and conclusions? By your comment, it does not sound as if you have.
Here is a good test
Login to the non-admin user on the machine
Start Terminal.app At the Terminal prompt enter the following command:
After that, do this command at the prompt:
Then post the output of both of those commands and it will be imediately clear to me (and others too) whether this is problem with permissions or something else. Let's stop scaring people if there is no need to :)
Here is a good test
Here's the information you asked for:
and
Note: for my own protection, I replaced my actual username with "username". Nothing in the above indicates that a non-administrative account should be able to write to /library/fonts/. However, if the gurus out there tell me the problem is on my end, please let me know so I can 1) fix it and 2) ask Rob to remove the hint. As a follow up to my original hint, I admit I did jump the gun as far as the default installation is concerned. I deleted the fontbook.plist file and started up FontBook again. The default installation was install "for me only", but any user can select the option "for all users" and install a font in /library/fonts/.
Thanks
That output indicates that nothing was amiss about the permissions. So that simple hypothesis of why a non-admin user was able to add system fonts seems debunked. |
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