Guild Wars 2

In order to install the GW2 Mac Beta client, administrator authentication is required. Why? What is being installed that requires superuser privileges?

kalemeow.8496:

In order to install the GW2 Mac Beta client, administrator authentication is required. Why? What is being installed that requires superuser privileges?

The game is being installed into your system Applications folder.

I installed the game in a folder I have privs for, the installer didn’t need to ask for them but it did anyway.

There shouldn’t be an installer, just an app to drag wherever, for something simple like a game. It needs no external resources, just its own files.

Bad coding.

They are new at this. Give them time.

You are installing a program downloaded from the internet. You SHOULD be prompted to verify you have rights to install it! It’s not ‘bad coding’. It’s GOOD PRACTICE and it’s how the OS works, not anything on the part of ANet.

I agree with Enoch, it’s not a self contained program it runs an installer, as soon as you run an installer Mac OSX requires admin password.

An admin password should (and is) only required when you are installing something outside of your own user domain, such as into the system Applications folder.

The OP was stating he is installing into his own User folder and therefore any need of a password should not be an admin password.

It has to do with how your security settings are configured, not where you are installing it. You don’t want to protect yourself from malicious software, change the setting (administrator password required)

Where are you downloading that this is an issue anyway?
It’s good to remember your admin password. XD

Enoch.1058:

It has to do with how your security settings are configured, not where you are installing it. You don’t want to protect yourself from malicious software, change the setting (administrator password required)

This has nothing to do with GateKeeper! GK stops programs from running at all with a normal launch if set to its strictest mode and the app is unsigned. None of the security settings apply in any way whatsoever to installing an app in a custom location. That is the domain of permissions. And you always have permission to write to your home directory.

Any installer which pops up admin verification in a .pkg installer also changes the group permissions so that the installed files are owned by admin users, which is quite annoying when the files go in your own directory.

Hedyn.5917:

Enoch.1058:

It has to do with how your security settings are configured, not where you are installing it. You don’t want to protect yourself from malicious software, change the setting (administrator password required)

This has nothing to do with GateKeeper! GK stops programs from running at all with a normal launch if set to its strictest mode and the app is unsigned. None of the security settings apply in any way whatsoever to installing an app in a custom location. That is the domain of permissions. And you always have permission to write to your home directory.

Any installer which pops up admin verification in a .pkg installer also changes the group permissions so that the installed files are owned by admin users, which is quite annoying when the files go in your own directory.

Finally, someone who knows what he’s talking about.