[kepler-dev] [Bug 5065] In shared or administrative installations, the ability to store modules.txt and extra modules locally. This way, the module manager will work smoothly on Windows without having to run as an administrator.

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5065

Matt Jones <jones at nceas.ucsb.edu> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Matt Jones <jones at nceas.ucsb.edu> 2010-07-29 17:41:05 PDT ---
Running as administrator or other root-level accounts is likely to be a
security issue, as it allows escalation  of privileges if Kepler is compromised
-- or possibly even if it is used as intended to run workflows that, for
example, launch command shells.  So, I think it best if Kepler only runs as a
non-admin user.  The easiest solution to this problem is simply to store any
files that a user needs to write to in a user-writable directory, probably as a
subdirectory of KeplerData in their home directory.

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