Permission to change permissions

[Howard Brazee]

I set up my old iMac for my grandson.

I created a User for him with Admin privileges. I haven’t yet deleted my User but plan to do so as soon as I have resolved my other issues.

I kept that computer running Mojave to run a 32-bit program that I needed, but don’t need it anymore. I will upgrade the computer to Catalina, which is as far as this late 2013 27” iMac can go.

Right now my grandson is part of our Family iCloud plan. I haven’t logged in his iCloud account into this computer yet. Maybe I need to do that before continuing.

I noticed that when I’m logged into his user, moving something into or out of Applications requires his user password. I don’t have to do that logged into my user.

So I did “Get Info” on Applications in Finder and checked permissions:
System Read & Write
Admin Read & Write
Everyone Read only

I pressed “+” and selected my grandson’s user.
I got the message “The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have the necessary permission.”.
It doesn’t matter whether I’m logged into him or myself.

How do I give him privilege on what will be his computer?

 

[Cory Cooper]

Hi,

If he is an admin, he should have the same privileges.

What are you trying to move out of the Applications folder? Most of those applications/files are protected when in the Applications folder.

C

 

[Howard Brazee]

I was moving an application out of the shared application folder into the logon's application folder.

But I discovered when that app updates, it's not smart enough to know where that app belongs.

 

[Cory Cooper]

Hi,

Correct...applications should all be installed in the Applications folder and remain there for that and other reasons.

C

 

[Howard Brazee]

Updates to applications should be installed in the Applications folder that the original applications are in. There's a reason Apple designed the OS with a shared applications folder and individual applications folders.