I installed Eclipse and am having some trouble relating to denied user permissions.
I am working on Vista inside a Windows domain. My user account is very restricted. My boss needs to grant administrator permission any time I install any application or establish a new network connection through the firewall.
Here are some of the problems that have occurred:
At Eclipse startup, Vista asks every time if I really want to run it. It doesn't remember my decision.
Eclipse doesn't remember my default workspace.
I installed the BIRT plugin. After a second restart it doesn't work anymore. The BIRT perspective does not run fine.
What permissions do I need to run Eclipse on Windows?
This problem occurs when you host the Eclipse application within a directory that is protected by the Vista or Windows 7 operating system. For example, %ProgramFiles%, %ProgramFiles(x86)%, or %ProgramW6432%. Unfortunately, for all of Eclipse's maturity, it still doesn't entirely restrict its per-user activities to the Windows operating system's user space.
If you don't care where your Eclipse application resides, or you don't have admin rights on your system, try moving the Eclipse application to a directory that is not protected by the Windows operating system.
If you have admin rights on your system, and want your Eclipse application to be hosted in one of Window's protected directories, you must make the directory writable to users. This will allow the proper operation of the Eclipse application, but be warned that it will also allow users to directly modify files within the Eclipse application directory. You can reduce this risk by making the directory writable to only the specific accounts that you choose.
Note that by performing either of the above solutions, it will not be necessary to run the Eclipse application with the "Run as Administrator" option.
To make the Eclipse application directory writable by users:
Right click on the Eclipse application directory within Windows Explorer.
Select "Properties".
Click the "Security" tab.
Click the "Edit..." button to change security permissions for the Eclipse folder.
If you want only specific user accounts to be able to write to the Eclipse application directory, click the "Add..." button to allow those accounts to appear within the "Group or user names" list.
One at a time, select each account to be granted write access to the Eclipse application directory, and then click the checkbox for "Modify / Allow" such that the checkbox is checked.
Conversely, if you want to allow all system users to be able to use Eclipse properly, select the "Users (YourComputerName\Users)" group from the "Group or user names" list, and then click the checkbox for "Modify / Allow" such that the checkbox is checked.
After all appropriate users have been given write access to the Eclipse application directory, click "OK". You should now be able to run Eclipse without issue.
tharkun's answer is sort of correct but I just wanted to post a "more correct" answer for anyone else who finds this question in the future.
For some reason, Eclipse needs administrator privileges in Windows 7 and Windows Vista machines. To do this one time, right-click the Eclipse executable or shortcut and click "Run as administrator"; to make it permanent, go to properties, the compatibility tab, and check the "Run this program as an administrator" box.
Despite tharkun's post, perhaps he forgot, Eclipse doesn't have an installer; you simply unzip it. There is no reinstallation necessary. If you run Eclipse normally and find something wrong, and just discovered this answer, you can safely run Eclipse as administrator from now on and nothing will be broken as a result of you not having run as administrator up until this point.
The problems with Eclipse that require administrator mode do not show up immediately, but for example if you check for updates with Eclipse running in non-administrator mode, Eclipse will claim that there are no update sites available. Also some GUI features will have problems.
These problems are likely caused by some of the advanced UAC features meant to protect your system, such as UAC Virtualization. Eclipse can (and hopefully will) be fixed to write only to user space and "play nice" with other Windows applications, but for now we have to simply run it as administrator and trust that it's not taking advantage of the added privileges.
As a sidenote, I just spent several hours trying to figure out how to get Eclipse to write inside the %AppData% directory, in hopes that it would solve this problem and allow Eclipse to be run in user mode, but I could not get Eclipse to honor anything I tried. Oh well...
eclipse require write permission to app folder
it has to be in a folder with user write permission, f.e. %localappdata%\Eclipse. if u place it in %programfiles%\Eclipse it can't write to config files or plugins
the app has no installer. it stores config files in the app folder by default. the official install path is "c:\eclipse" and they forgot to mention that write permission is required
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/Installation
Decompress this file into the directory of your choice (e.g. "c:\eclipse" on Windows) and ensure you have full Read and Execute permissions.
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When creating installers with multiple file associations, the "File Associations" screen in the installer (which allows the user to select/deselect which extensions to associate with the application being installed) appears in the Windows installer created, but does not appear in the Unix shell installer. This means all file associations are made without the user getting to choose.
Is there a way to force the appearance of the file associations screen?
This is indeed a bug in install4j, it will be fixed in 8.0.3, please contact support#ej-technologies.com to get a build where this is already fixed.
i know that the default profile name when i installed websphere was Appsrv01, I want to create my own AppSrv02 but the location of my IBM Websphere was in C: and i dont have any write permission, i dont have any admin rights also..
using COMMAND-LINE, I want to make my profile folder to be writable, so that my newly created AppSrv02 will be list down in the profile names in my RAD.
Please help me. Thanks
So that's your problem. In order to have a usable profile in WAS, your user must have write permissions. See this link from WAS ND infocenter, it applies to WAS standalone too.
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSAW57_8.5.5/com.ibm.websphere.installation.nd.doc/ae/tpro_manage_nonroot.html
If you cannot change the write permissions to this profile, you'll need to create your own. For this, you can either use WAS Profile Management Tool, WAS CLI or you can create your profile using the Configure profiles... link in the WAS server creation wizard you posted. I'd use the RAD way because RAD validates, within the IDE, the proper permissions that you need to create and use the profile within RAD.
First check whether you have admin rights or not if your using User/Guest profile, by creating any new folder in C drive where IBM WAS is installed.
If you have Admin rights, than right click on RAD run as administrator. It should work fine.
If Profile doesnt show up in drop down, Configure new profile and try checking that way.
If you dont have Admin rights better install RAD in any local drive other than C
Running Eclipse with Admin rights and removing the read-only tick for the AppServXX folder/WAS folder couldn't help me... cause I copied the WAS server from another PC :). So for those of you who want to move / migrate your development environment:
I did a search inside the copied WAS, Eclipse and the project's workspace folder for their old paths (with Total Commander, feed the results into a list) and dragged all the files (except the log ones) into my editor (NotePad++) and did a replace in all open documents for the new paths. It's a bit lucrative, but it took only 10 minutes for me and afterwards the WAS server in Eclipse showed the correct profile and it also did start up well.
I'm testing out Install4J 5.1.5 and am running into a little issue. My original jar file I would like to distribute has full permissions-- anyone can open it (with something like 7zip)-- and modify/delete any entries in that jar. However this same jar-- when installed by install4j-- the permissions become essentially read-only. I can't modify/delete anything in the jar after installation-- gives me permissions issue.
The reason why I want to modify/delete is that there are a few properties files in the jar that get defined by the user during installation so I want to modify / delete whats already in there with the user's new files...
The only thing I can think of is that I set the default unix file and directory modes to 777. But this doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?
The installer has a helper process that runs with elevated permissions. This helper process is started by the "Request privileges" action that is by default added to the "Startup" node of the installer.
All actions whose "Action elevation type" property is set to "Elevate to maximum available privileges" are executed in the helper process.
If you want to modify the file in your application (i.e. not in the installer), you can use a "Add Windows file rights" action to make the file writable for everybody.
I have been trying to install sql server 2008 r2 at my local machine and at the end of the installation i got this error "Wait on the database engine recovery handle failed". The Wizard shows progress in which some of the components including Database Engine could be not be installed.
I need some help related to this.
This issue can pop up for a few different scenarios. Do check the logs for error.
One of the scenario when this error can occur if a Microsoft® system folder is either missing or lacking the correct permissions.
Please use the following steps:
1.Click the Windows® Start button and click Run.
2.Type %appdata% and click OK.
3.Browse to the Microsoft folder.
4.Locate the Protect folder to assign the correct permissions:
Note: If the Protect folder is missing from the Microsoft folder, you will need to create it in this location by right-clicking and selecting Folder. Ensure to name the folder "Protect."
1.Right-click on the Protect folder and select Properties.
2.Click on the Security tab. Ensure the System and your logged on Windows User account is listed and both have Full Control.
3.Click Add to begin adding the accounts. For Windows Vista®/Windows 7, you will need to click Edit first.
4.In the "Enter the object names to select" box, type the word System, and press Enter on your keyboard. The System account should be listed
now. Select System from the user names list and select Full Control
under the Allow column. Click Apply .
5.Follow steps 3-4 to find, add and assign Full Control permissions also for you logged on Windows User account.
6.Click OK
.
Attempt to install SQL Server 2008 R2.
Even if this does not solve your problem, you take a look at the msdn blog that provides a workaround for the install scenario and see if this fixes it?
I have a PHP project in NetBeans with remote files (over sftp). When I create, modify anything these changes happening both locally and on my web server. However when I'm trying to delete a file or a folder it gets erased only locally. What could be the problem?
Permissions seems to be ok, all files belong to the user I'm using to access the server.
I'm using Netbeans 6.9.1, default configuration, all updates installed.
Netbeans does not have a synchronization function. It is limited to downloading and uploading files. What you can do is to use some external tool, for example WinSCP is capable of synchronizing local and remote directories.
I read what you wrote... but I think it could be a permissions problem.
I also use NetBeans and when I delete a file from the project window it first erase it locally and then syncs with my server.
I login through sftp (using vsftp) as root, which is a bad thing, but you could try this too to be sure if it's a permission issue.
You mistakenly turned off the settings. Please follow these steps:
Right click on the project name
Select properties
From the list of the left select 'Run configuration'
On the left almost down, look for the setting 'Upload files:'
Make sure you set that to 'On Save'
All the best man