[TxMt] Permission denied when creating the "mate" link

[Fred B.]

On 25 Nov 2005, at 23:52, lukas pitschl | 25 hours a day wrote:


>
> Am 25.11.2005 um 19:30 schrieb Luís Bruno:
>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I'm evaluating build r790 and chose to create the "mate" link in ~/ 
>> Applications, which is already in my path when I open Terminal.app.
>>
>> However, TextMate somehow requested admin privileges; I  
>> _cancelled_ and I got back an error message: "Creating the link “/ 
>> bin/mate” failed with the following reason: Permission denied".
>>
>> Am I expecting the wrong thing?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -- 
>> Luís Bruno
>>

> the link is not created in ~/Applications, but in /bin as that path  
> is already in the PATH var of the terminal, this requires root or  
> admin rights, meaning, that you were not allowed to cancel the  
> password request.
>
> regards
>
> lukas

No,  you can choose where the link is created (default is ~/bin).

I just tried to create it in ~/Applications and it doesn't prompt me  
for my password.

--
Fred