Re: Install miktex as poweruser

Ignasi <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Nov 2017 09:13:13 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.miktex
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I've MikTeX installed for a single user in my PC (windows10). In this 
case, miktex doesn't distinguish between user and admin. I've only one 
package manager, one miktex-update and one miktex-settings.

Ignasi


El 14/11/2017 a les 11:37, Mau V via MiKTeX-Users ha escrit:
> 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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