I’m trying to use PackageMaker on the Mac to build a nice installer and I’ve run into a problem with permissions on folders. Can any Mac guru help with this:
When you create a package you can change file permissions to whatever you want so that after install the app and supporting files will be set correctly. The problem I have is that the folder I’m installing into inside /Applications isn’t set to be accessible when the user is logged in as anything other than Administrator during the install process.
So for example if I put myApp inside a subfolder of myAppFolder i.e /Applications/myAppFolder/mySubAppFolder/myApp.app
then myAppFolder is set to read for “everyone” but mySubAppFolder is set to “no access” for everyone.
If I install as administrator or as me on my machine all folders are set to read.
Any ideas what is happening here and how to control it?