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From: luxor1275bc on 17 Jul 2008 23:50
Why does Acrobat require an Admin password to startup? I just
installed it and it requires this each time for some unknown reason.
Thanks for any help.
From: luxor1275bc on 18 Jul 2008 01:07
On Jul 17, 8:50 pm, luxor127...(a)gmail.com wrote:
> Why does Acrobat require an Admin password to startup?  I just
> installed it and it requires this each time for some unknown reason.
> Thanks for any help.

I neglected to say that this is for version 6.0 of Acrobat and 10.5.4.
From: matt neuburg on 18 Jul 2008 11:23
<luxor1275bc(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jul 17, 8:50 pm, luxor127...(a)gmail.com wrote:
> > Why does Acrobat require an Admin password to startup? I just
> > installed it and it requires this each time for some unknown reason.
> > Thanks for any help.
>
> I neglected to say that this is for version 6.0 of Acrobat and 10.5.4.

Almost certainly a permissions problem. I've seen this kind of thing
after an installation. Check permissions / ownership on the app. m.

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From: luxor1275bc on 18 Jul 2008 14:14
On Jul 18, 8:23 am, m...(a)tidbits.com (matt neuburg) wrote:
> <luxor127...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jul 17, 8:50 pm, luxor127...(a)gmail.com wrote:
> > > Why does Acrobat require an Admin password to startup?  I just
> > > installed it and it requires this each time for some unknown reason.
> > > Thanks for any help.
>
> > I neglected to say that this is for version 6.0 of Acrobat and 10.5.4.
>
> Almost certainly a permissions problem. I've seen this kind of thing
> after an installation. Check permissions / ownership on the app. m.

Source:
http://tinyurl.com/6neawt

1) The application will prompt for an admin password unless the user
has write
access to:

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Registration Database

2) This file is used globally by Adobe apps to store registration
info,
but Acrobat 6 appears to be the only one that needs world-write
access.

3) No known workarounds, although you could add a login script that
refreshes this file at login.

=== end of material from Source ===

$ ls -ald /Library /Library/Application\ Support/ /Library/Application
\
Support/Adobe ./Adobe\ Registration\ Database
drwxrwxr-t+ 59 root admin 2006 Jul 17 15:16 /Library
drwxrwxr-x 22 root admin 748 Jul 17 11:15 /Library/Application
Support/
drwxrwxr-x 28 admin admin 952 Jul 17 20:20 /Library/Application
Support/Adobe
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root admin 672 Jul 17 20:20 ./Adobe Registration
Database


Doesn't it seem like I could just replace the Reg DB with an alias and
place the original file in a writable directory? What do you think?
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