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EvE on Macs with multiple user accounts

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Rhianna Ghost
Ghost Industries Inc.
#1 - 2011-11-30 09:39:49 UTC
Hi there,

My wife and I both play, and we both have our own useraccount on our macs.

Is there a possibility to install the EVE Client in a way that it works for both users? I tried fixing the permissions on the app itself, but that alone seems not to be enough, but I don't even get an error if I open it from the terminal.

Ideas?

Rhi
Presidio
V'rix Corp
#2 - 2011-11-30 15:40:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Presidio
I am guessing you copied EVE specific stuff from /Users/account_name to the other accounts directory.

I think it's in /Users/account_name/Library/Application Support/EVE Online/


so:

sudo cp -R /User/original_working_account_name/Library/Application\ Support/EVE\ Online/ /User/new_user_account_that_wishes_to_play_eve/Library/Application\ Support/EVE\ Online/

In terminal should do the trick.
CCP Konflikt
Doomheim
#3 - 2011-11-30 16:48:31 UTC
Presidio wrote:
I am guessing you copied EVE specific stuff from /Users/account_name to the other accounts directory.

I think it's in /Users/account_name/Library/Application Support/EVE Online/


so:

sudo cp -R /User/original_working_account_name/Library/Application\ Support/EVE\ Online/ /User/new_user_account_that_wishes_to_play_eve/Library/Application\ Support/EVE\ Online/

In terminal should do the trick.


Close but i would symlink the folders and then they are the same cache... though i'm not recommending this and it's very likely to be unsupported.

It should be similar to this:

ln -s /User/Husband/Library Application\ Support/ Eve\ Online/ /User/Wife/Library Application\ Support/ Eve\ Online/

CCP Konflikt Quality Assurance Engineer Team Trilambda
Presidio
V'rix Corp
#4 - 2011-11-30 19:00:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Presidio
CCP Konflikt wrote:
Presidio wrote:
I am guessing you copied EVE specific stuff from /Users/account_name to the other accounts directory.

I think it's in /Users/account_name/Library/Application Support/EVE Online/


so:

sudo cp -R /User/original_working_account_name/Library/Application\ Support/EVE\ Online/ /User/new_user_account_that_wishes_to_play_eve/Library/Application\ Support/EVE\ Online/

In terminal should do the trick.


Close but i would symlink the folders and then they are the same cache... though i'm not recommending this and it's very likely to be unsupported.

It should be similar to this:

ln -s /User/Husband/Library Application\ Support/ Eve\ Online/ /User/Wife/Library Application\ Support/ Eve\ Online/



One thing I (both of us) forgot is permissions as EVE installer puts these as -rwx------

If they want to use a symlink method, permissions will have to change. (chmod 770 or 777)

This is why I prefere the copy method in which case all the new user has to do is change the ownership to the new username.

sudo chown -R new_user /User/new_user/Library Application\ Support/ Eve\ Online/

Shared cache is cool, but I think separate logs, and preferences for them is probably more desirable. Especially if they share accounts (cough).

Another option and also probably the easiest method, would probably be to uninstall EVE and install it under a new OSX account they can both share, to play the game(s).
Rhianna Ghost
Ghost Industries Inc.
#5 - 2011-12-01 07:03:00 UTC
OK, i changed the permissions of the App itself, I copied the ~/Library/Application\ Support/EVE\ Online\ folder, ajusted ownership there, but still to no avail.

Is there a possibility to turn on logging, so that the client does tell what disappoints it?

If not, I will consider adding another user account, but I do not like that solution a lot.