Re: [pavlik to poogimmal]

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 14:57 -0700, r coyne wrote:
> Why does one need to install from an administrator
> account? I can't imagine any reason why a word
> processor should need system- or administrator-type
> privileges, and requiring them seems like terrible
> design. No doubt there may be aspects of a "standard"
> full-scale installation that do require broad access;
> but not everybody wants to do those things. The
> principle of least privilege is important; when it
> comes to computers, paranoids live longer.

We know... patches are accepted :) We have only limited resources that
are stretched to its limits already.

Marc

>
>
> --- Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > poogimmal wrote:
> >
> > >we have a new gateway with MS XP media 2005 OS.
> > >installed abiword 2.2.9 using admin acct,
> > >and it runs fine.
> > >then login as limited user,
> > >and tried to run abiword and we get error,
> > >"cannot find libabiword.dll. try to reinstall"
> > >would not reinstall from limited user acct.
> > >how to fix? the point is to run abiword in
> > >limited acct for safety reasons.
> > >so far, the limited users in this version of
> > >XP are proving to be problematic.
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> > >
> > You need to install from an administrator accoutn,
> > and it sounds like
> > perhaps the installation that is current is
> > corrupted. Uninstall
> > AbiWord, remove the C:\Program Files\AbiSource2
> > directory, and then
> > re-install from the latest 2.2.x version on the web
> > site,
> > abisource.com. This should fix the problem.
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Received on Thu Aug 18 00:13:26 2005