[OpenSTA-devel] [ opensta-Bugs-1522078 ] Using OpenSTAs tools without Admin privs gives poor errors

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Bugs item #1522078, was opened at 2006-07-13 15:40
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Category: Architecture
Group: Design
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Daniel Sutcliffe (dansut)
Assigned to: Daniel Sutcliffe (dansut)
Summary: Using OpenSTAs tools without Admin privs gives poor errors

Initial Comment:
It was never originally intended that OpenSTA be run as
anything as a user with Administration privs - that
being said if it is attempted the errors and symptoms
the tools show are not at all obvious as to what the
problem is.

This bug exists mainly to alert the user to the above
fact and to point to this FAQ entry:
http://portal.opensta.org/faq.php?topic=NonAdminProblems

If you hit new symptoms that are not mentioned in the
above FAQ then please add them to that FAQ and not this
bug request.

The solution of this bug may be: to simply cause the
tools to fail gracefully with good error messages in
this situation, to fix the tools so they can run, or
some conbination of the above.  The direction that is
taken will depend on information gethered through the
FAQ entry and discussed on the OpenSTA-Users mailing list.

Please also reference bug#1199254 which addresses
similar issues attempting to run OpenSTA on WinXP Home
edition.

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Comment By: Danny Faught (faught)
Date: 2006-08-22 12:27

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I just found a permissions problem unrelated to admin
privileges, but is likely to involve the same code that is
not properly checking for failure due to filesystem permissions.

I had pulled my repository out from SourceSafe.  My script
file was not checked out, so the write permissions on the
file were turned off.  Not realizing that I needed to check
out the file, I made changes to the script, clicked the Save
button, and got no error.  In fact, when I exited the Script
Modeler, all of my changes were lost.

The Script Modeler needs to check for errors when saving the
file.  I'm running OpenSTA 1.4.3.20 and Script Modeler
1.4.3.6 on Windows XP Pro SP2.

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