Re: Install miktex as poweruser

Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Nov 2017 22:58:00 +0000
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An alternative is to use the portable version. 


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From: Mau V via MiKTeX-Users <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 5:37 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Mau V
Subject: [MiKTeX] Install miktex  as poweruser

I just ask for a confirmation.
I have Miktex 2.9 installed as administrator on my PC running win10.
My University will no longer allow me to have admin rights on my PC but just rights as "poweruser" ( I am the ONLY user of my PC, in reality). It is just a change of policy, don't ask me about that....

Thus, my MikTeX is still working but I cannot upgrade packages etc. (unless I ask the admin to do that for me, of course....), or so it seems to me, when I try.

My idea would be to ask for MikTeX to be unistalled and then reinstalled only for my username.
Under such conditions, could I be 100% sure that I would be able  to regularly upgrade my MikTeX installation, edit the config file for map of new fonts, with lines such as...

initexmf --edit-config-file updmap
etc.

without asking the technician who has admin rights to do that for me?

I think so, but I want to be 100% sure....
ThanksMaurizio


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