Is it possible to give an application admin permissions regardless of users status

Change the permissions on that file or the emulator folder so that all accounts can write to it; if needed, ask someone from your IT department to change it. This can be done by control-clicking the application, choosing Show Package Contents, navigating to the folder, selecting it, choosing Get Info, and making the change.

It's possible to set a special permission for the application as a whole, but this is more of a security risk.

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Hi Subs,

Do you really need to run that app? It looks like it is doing some very non-standard things. It is a very bad idea for any application to write to its own bundle like this. I don't think it has anything to do with your locked down system. I suggest copying the application from /Applications into an "Applications" folder in your home directory. I don't know if it will work from here as it is poorly designed. But any application should work from there and that would be a much better place for something like that.

Giving blanket admin rights to any application is a bad idea. Giving blanket admin rights to a beta application is just plain stupid. Unless, of course, you don't mind having your machine, and all resident data, go belly up on a regular basis.

What needs to be addressed is the design of the application, not the OS it's running on.

No.

-Ethan