V4MD quirk with user permissions

[niklas woermann]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ruslan Zasukhin" <sunshine at public.kherson.ua>
To: <valentina at lists.macserve.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: V4MD quirk with user permissions


> 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.
> 
> 
> -- 
Hi!
some further info:
when i make the db files readonly it still doesn´t work. the only workaround i have found is to put the db OUTSIDE of the program folder

regards
niklas woermann