[ python-Bugs-1234850 ] Admin privs required for Windows?

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Bugs item #1234850, was opened at 2005-07-08 09:52
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Category: Distutils
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Admin privs required for Windows?

Initial Comment:
Over in ZopeLand, there's a complaint that the ZODB 
Windows installer requires admin privileges (or 
something like that):

    http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1838

The installer was produced using Python 2.3.5, via

    python setup.py bdist_wininst

from the root of a ZODB checkout.  Anyone have a 
guess as to what privs it needs that it might not 
have?  The user says they do have permission to write 
into their Python installation directory, so that's 
not it.  The message they get is "You do not seem to 
have sufficient access rights on this machine to 
install this software". 

Status under Python 2.4.1 is unknown.

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Comment By: Alex (hairypalm)
Date: 2005-07-08 10:36

Message:
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user_id=1309592

I am the original "complainant".  I cannot try python 2.4 
install package because it requires MSVCR71.dll.  I 
am "locked down" at work and cannot write files except to 
my own user area.  I am also prevented from writing to some 
areas of the registry.

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