Re: Adding PGInstaller to the Downloads section

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:

> On 2018-08-28 13:39, Dave Page wrote:
> <snip>
>
>> I did;
>>
>> *==>** The following existing directories will be made group writable:*
>>
>> /usr/local/bin
>>
>> /usr/local/lib
>>
>> /usr/local/share
>>
>> /usr/local/var
>>
>> *==>** The following existing directories will have their owner set to *
>> *dpage*:
>>
>> /usr/local/bin
>>
>> /usr/local/lib
>>
>> /usr/local/share
>>
>> /usr/local/var
>>
>> *==>** The following existing directories will have their group set to *
>> *admin*:
>>
>> /usr/local/bin
>>
>> /usr/local/lib
>>
>> /usr/local/share
>>
>> /usr/local/var
>>
>> I would rather we don't list a distro, than list one that we have to put
>> security warnings against.
>>
>
> Isn't OSX/macOS considered a "single user" system for the vast majority of
> its users?
>
> Note - I'm meaning "single person has access to the machine", rather than
> talking about the process separation model.
>
> For a single user machine, the above setup doesn't seem terrible. It's
> not giving world writeable access, it's just claiming ownership of
> otherwise unused directories for the main users group.
>
> ?
>
> Anyone using OSX/macOS in multi-user fashion is probably going to hit
> other issues too (eg other people's apps in /Applications), and probably :)
> avoids Homebrew.

I have multiple shared Macs. I've never run into such an issue, probably
because you need root permissions to install something in /Applications
rather than ~/Applications.

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