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On Apr 27 08:39, Patrick Julien wrote:
> OK, I understand why it's the privileged token but why is it still in session 0?

Because it's started in session 0.  Creating our own session for each user
could result in an enormous memory leak.

> Also, it doesn't really explain why the files are all installed with
> ownership set to me

That's because setup works that way.  If you want the ownership of the
files being administrator, start setup as administrator.


Corinna

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