Runing Flash as regular user

I have Studio 8 installed in the computer lab. There are no
problems with running with Dreamweaver and Flash as member of
Administrators, but if I login as a regular user I can only run
Dreamweaver. Flash tries to run an installer and then give me the
following error message:
Error 1706: No valid source could be found for product
Macromedia Flash 8. Windows installer can not continue.
Is there any way to set up flash so that the installer isn't
necessary. Regular users can not install anything in the lab.
Thanks,
Steffen

You got that 100% right... I agree with you.
But I don't see this like customization.
It's not changing/adding features of program/OS (like patch or something)
AFAIK, many packages (trough I'm not sure if thats in PKGBUILD, or in native packages) are creating new groups to avoid programs being run as root.
Besides that, when admin installs program, its everything the same for him, besides he doesn't have to do the same after every update.
But when regular user installs program, he would 80% run that as root (like you did), which is (potentiality hight) security risk. Isn't it easier and better to just once type: sudo gpasswd -a user wireshark, then running it as root?
Of course, user should be told that he should add him self to group wireshark at the time of installation (what many archlinux packages does), so he doesn't have to crawl web to find the answer. Also, post_remove scrip should delete wireshark group to keep system clean.
I made my self a script and its not a problem to run it after every update. It's just a try to make archlinux more safe for regular user.
(admins would take care of this them self, I rly hope).
Last edited by jazzfan (2010-02-26 20:49:23)

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