[Kmymoney-devel] Comments about KMyMoney

[Chris]

Certain folders are protected.

For example "program files" you need admin priv's to write to that. If you 
decide to keep your data file in a write protected folder you are going to 
have issues.

This mostly effects installations but poor user choices can effect it as well.

The other thing is what does KDE and QT do? They may attempt things which 
need admin privileges, again outside of installation it should present no 
issues, at least I have not had any but I dont have a normal setup. so other 
users may be having issues I am not aware of.

Chris
Rebel Software <http://www.rebel.com.au>

On 1/06/2014 6:53 PM, Cristian Oneț wrote:
> As far as I know KMyMoney does not need to do anything that would
> require administrator privileges. I can only see this happening if one
> keeps the default installation path (the "Program Files" directory).
> If the installer would be pointed to a user owned directory I guess no
> privileges would be necessary. But it could be that Windows has some
> rules for installers that will trigger UAC.
>
> Just to sum it up: the KMyMoney installer is just an archive that
> contains all the necessary files to run the application and all it
> does is extract the files, run kbuildsyscoca after extraction and
> create the start menu entries. I think these actions would not require
> administrator privileges.
>
> Regards,
> Cristian
>
> 2014-06-01 3:45 GMT+03:00 Chris <DeveloperChris at rebel.com.au>:
>> I use windows 7 and don't have this problem.
>>
>> during installation you need to run as admin (most times win7 is smart
>> enough to do that for you), but after that everything should be fine.
>>
>> Chris
>> Rebel Software
>>
>> On 31/05/2014 11:05 PM, Alvaro Soliverez wrote:
>>
>> There's something wrong if it has to run in administrator mode, and
>> I'd certainly not put that in the instructions.
>>
>> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Allan <agander93 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> cc'd to Jack and to whom it may concern re update to instructions/guide?
>>
>> Allan
>>
>>
>> On 30/05/14 14:58, Alec Evans wrote:
>>
>> Hi Alvaro,
>>
>> In the meantime good news - here's the text of my reply to Allan:
>>
>> Hi Allan,
>>
>> Thanks for the quick response.
>>
>> I downloaded kmymoney-x86-setup-4.6.4.exe from sourceforge.net.
>>
>> However, pleased to report that I have cracked the problem in the last
>> couple of minutes - the AHA! moment was when I found that the program only
>> starts if you "Run as an administrator". Simple when you know how.
>>
>> I checked it on my "other" laptop - also running Windows7 64 bit - and the
>> same applies.
>>
>> On either machine, if run in "user" mode nothing noticeable happens, other
>> than maybe a bit of a tick from an HDD.
>>
>> Although I've been using Windows 7 for around 5 years, I still keep the
>> admin / user demarcation from XP days. I find that having to type in a
>> password rather than just (unthinkingly) clicking on what could be a major
>> system change gives an extra bit of security.
>>
>> I didn't see anything about using admin mode in the installation guide -
>> could I suggest mentioning this somewhere?
>>
>> Thanks again - I've been looking for something to replace MS Money for a
>> good few years so I'm really pleased to have found this program.
>>
>> Alec
>>
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