[Ifeffit] administrator privileges

[Henning Lichtenberg]

Dear Matt,
 
thank you very much for your help! The people in the computer science department fixed the problem, everything seems to run just fine, and the information you provided will definitely be very helpful for the next courses we are planning.
 
With best regards,
Henning 

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Von: ifeffit-bounces at millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov im Auftrag von Matt Newville
Gesendet: Mo 19.03.2012 12:29
An: XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit
Betreff: Re: [Ifeffit] administrator privileges



Hi Henning,

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Henning Lichtenberg
<Lichtenberg2 at ict.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
>
> we have been preparing a course about using Athena including some exercises
> (practical examples) for tomorrow, March 20th. For that course we reserved a
> computer pool in the computer science department of our university, and
> they created course accounts for the participants. They also installed
> the IFEFFIT package on  that computer pool. Unfortunately it is not possible
> to run IFEFFIT on those computers (although it is installed) with a course
> account. It only works after administrator privileges have been added to the
> account. I was temporarily given such privileges, but just for
> troubleshooting. We cannot get those privileges for the course
> participants.
>
> Has anybody out there ever encountered a similar problem?  Any idea how this
> could be fixed?
> (probably either by modifying the accounts or changing program settings)
>
> Thank you very much!
>

Just to be clear, you must be using Windows, and probably Windows 7,
if you're getting new-ish computers from a pool service.

Background: The Ifeffit programs generally assume they can write to
their installation folder... This is considered unsafe in Windows
Vista and 7, and we should instead be creating an folder under
users\USERNAME\Application Data  to write data (such as Athena project
files) to.

For now, it should be possible to install Ifeffit so that it doesn't
need admin privileges to run by installing to a folder other than
C:\Program Files\Ifeffit, that the unprivileged user can write to, say
to C:\Users\USERNAME\Ifeffit.  Everything should work from there just
fine.   At install time, a small batch file is written that sets all
the path information anyway, so that using C:\Program Files\  is not
required.

Hope that helps --- let us know how that works out.
And good luck with the course!

--Matt Newville

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