[tech] Some Steam issues resolved?
Ash Tyndall
atyndall at ucc.asn.au
Sat May 28 14:03:38 WST 2011
I've been fiddling around with the permissions on the D:\Steam folder on the
four windows machines, and I think I've found a configuration that stops it
needing an admin password to login to Steam for the first time on a
computer. It may have also fixed some other permission problems.
I've documented this configuration at http://wiki.ucc.asn.au/Steam.
The basic gist of it is you allow gumby and Everyone all rights except
the ability to change ownership or change the permissions. Then you made
everything in the directory inherit those permissions, ensuring that the
owner is SYSTEM. The problem seemed to be that Steam choked when trying to
create a player directory in D:\Steam\steamapps, which it only does if you
haven't logged in before.
The configuration still allows wheel and winadmin members to change
permissions, but I haven't fully tested their effects. Try not to run
Steam.exe as Administrator if you don't have to; I'm not sure if Steam will
revert the permissions.
--
Ash Tyndall [ASH]
2011 Fresher Rep
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/attachments/20110528/353eeafc/attachment.htm
More information about the tech
mailing list