[WinPartners] "Demoting" a user

[Atticus O Gifford]

I also just wanted to add that the current Eudora registration codes should
always be available here--no need to install Eudora to snag the information:

<https://web.mit.edu/software/mit/licenses/eudora.html>

That URL is also linked from a stock answer if you do a search in there.

-atticus


Quoting Kerem B Limon <k_limon at MIT.EDU>:

> Eudora will work perfectly fine with the Windows 2000 and above security
> model,
> but IS&T's installer still seems to be using the old model of keeping stuff
> in
> %SystemDrive%\Users\<username>\Eudora. Ordinary users on a machine do not
> have
> access to the %SystemDrive% or below for write access outside of the usual
> Windows folders.
> 
> Solution (and the proper way to use the app) is to let Eudora place its
> settings
> in the user's profile directory, under
> %UserProfile%\ApplicationData\Qualcomm\Eudora (untile at least as long as
> this
> isn't a domain machine and/or won't be up/downloading that profile
> frequently;
> you can get around that with redirects, but that's beyond the scope of
> this).
> 
> You can change the DEudora.ini and the users Eudora.ini files accordingly,
> but
> the easiest method for you is to get the plain Eudora installer from
> Qualcomm
> and then enter MIT's registration ID (look in the About dialog of an MIT
> Eudora
> installation). Then, when setting up, choose to save the data in the users'
> application data folder. This way all users on the machine will have their
> own
> distinct mail kept as part of their profile, and won't need admin
> privileges.
> And you won't need to create custom Eudora shortcuts for each, just
> executing
> Eudora.exe will "do the right thing".
> 
> BTW, if you are worried about staying with the currently distributed version
> of
> Eudora from IS&T, older Eudora installers are available also from Qualcomm
> (finally) at http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/2350hq.html .
> 
> -Kerem
> 
> 
> Quoting Dave Broderick <djbroder at MIT.EDU>:
> 
> > I have a user who chronically loads his machine down with spyware and
> worse.
> > 
> > I tried Setting him up as Administrator, and "demoting" him to User after 
> > Eudora was installed, but Eudora won't work correctly. He loses permission
> 
> > to write to his In and Out (and other) mailboxes when he is demoted.
> > 
> > I can't get this to work right at his time. Any hints?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > David J. Broderick
> > djbroder at mit.edu
> >          Audio Visual Project Technician
> >          MIT AV 617 253 2808
> >          FAX 617 253 5945
> >          <http://web.mit.edu/djbroder/www>http://web.mit.edu/djbroder/www
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> Kerem B. Limon
> kerem.limon at mit.edu /e-mail
> 
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