[X Newbies] Problems Installing Apps

[Alex]

On Thursday, Apr 1, 2004, at 01:53 Canada/Eastern, Kirk McElhearn wrote:

> On 4/1/04 8:42 AM, "Chris Walker" <chris at mymac.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I thought that when installing ANY app that the admin dialogue was
>> supposed to appear to ask for the password [...]
>
> Under Panther, unlike Jaguar, the password request comes at the very 
> end of
> the procedure. [...]

Depends on which installer and what it does. If the user has admin 
privs, and the installer only extracts and copies files to the Apps 
folder, no password is required.

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