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<blockquote data-quote="Aptmunich" data-source="post: 1153361" data-attributes="member: 3850"><p>It all depends where the files are stored, as others have said. Basically, the Admin account has full read/write access to most locations, including the Macintosh HD/Applications folder. A non admin user will need the admin's username and password to add an application to that folder.</p><p></p><p>But since OS X doesn't really care where you place most applications, you can also create a Macintosh HD/Users/nonadminusersname/Applications folder. If a game update is required, the user should be perfectly able to install it themselves, since they won't need an admin password to write to that folder.</p><p></p><p>I think the long and the short of it is that OS X isn't really designed for "super-admin" users (I know, I know - it's *nix, but OS X itself wasn't designed with it in mind). </p><p></p><p>You may be able to hack together a workable solution, but creating an Applications folder in the user's home directory is the way everyone else would deal with this issue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aptmunich, post: 1153361, member: 3850"] It all depends where the files are stored, as others have said. Basically, the Admin account has full read/write access to most locations, including the Macintosh HD/Applications folder. A non admin user will need the admin's username and password to add an application to that folder. But since OS X doesn't really care where you place most applications, you can also create a Macintosh HD/Users/nonadminusersname/Applications folder. If a game update is required, the user should be perfectly able to install it themselves, since they won't need an admin password to write to that folder. I think the long and the short of it is that OS X isn't really designed for "super-admin" users (I know, I know - it's *nix, but OS X itself wasn't designed with it in mind). You may be able to hack together a workable solution, but creating an Applications folder in the user's home directory is the way everyone else would deal with this issue. [/QUOTE]
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