
Whoever looks at the file will appear to own it (the only exception is the root user who as system-god will see the “_unknown” identifiers instead). Remember the episode of Futurama where they go to Mom’s Friendly Robot Company, there’s an exhibit of “who’s my favorite robot?” UNIX has the concept of “unknown” user, and corresponding “unknown” group. “Wait, I’m suspicious… what does that do?” EndNote X7 will prompt for admin access, re-install the CWYW Word plug-in (despite the fact it’s already present), and then tell you that you’re running the demo version which will expire in 30 days.Ĭhown 99:99 "/Applications/EndNote X7/.license.dat"Ĭhown -R 99:99 "/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Startup/Word/EndNote CWYW Word 2011.bundle"


So, out of the box, EndNote X7 for Mac is not deployable to a lab environment, particularly where the users do not have admin access.
