V4MD quirk with user permissions

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 3/5/03 2:58 PM, niklas woermann at nwoe at privat.utfors.se wrote:

> Hi!
> I just discovered something, we use an installer to install a bunch of files
> to the users hard drive.
> basically its the valentina database files and some director files.
> If the user chooses to install to the default location (CSIDL_Program_files),
> any restricted users wont be able to open the database.
> i am no guru on windows security, but it seems the restricted users cant write
> anything to the program folder, and since i suppose valentina needs to
> write temp files or what ever, the database calls will fail.
> 
> the problem is solved if the installation target is chosen not to be
> CSIDL_Program_files,
> 
> i am trying to figure out a way out of this mess, anyone have any experience
> with problems like these?

Hi Niklas,

IF db files are located on LOCKED volume, or self marked as READ ONLY
Then Valentina will create TMP system file for JOINs and indexes.
And yes it will refuse write into db.


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Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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