V4RB - Aggregate Functions, Permissions

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 8/27/05 2:05 AM, "RB User" <fitzbew at nc.rr.com> wrote:

Hi Russ,

>> MAY BE you need to use Vserver for your task?
> 
> No, only one user needs access to this file at a time.
> 
> The thing is, I think the second user (with only read permissions to the db
> file) is running the app, and Valentina is not properly handling the
> permissions issue. I mean, it is trying to write the "results table" to the
> db file and the user does not have write access to it, or it is trying to
> build the "results table" in an invalid temp folder. This is just an
> educated guess, based on the fact that the problem goes away if the user has
> write access to the db file.
> 
> Should a "managed user" on OS X have write access to the system TMP folder,
> that Valentina uses for the "results table"?

Not sure. May be that is admin folder ?
 
> I don't mind leaving my workaround in place, it just makes me nervous that I
> do not know 100% sure what is causing the cursor to choke.
> 
> I have verified the same problem on one other Mac OS X machine (i.e., a
> managed user cannot successfully run an aggregate query cursor on a db that
> they only have Read access to).

Well, if you will upgrade later to 2.0,
Then for 2.0 we can check this and try to fix if needed


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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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