ksadmin error

[Michelle Russell]

Just thought I would see if anyone knows a solution...

We have iMacs running Snow Leopard.  The machines are managed.  Chrome will not run on the student account.  (Students do not have administrative access.)  We get a Fix ksadmin error

When we Google the error, there doesn't seem to be a fix.  Does anyone know of a fix?  

Thanks

Michelle Russell
Technology Integration Coach
Lincoln Middle School

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[Sharon Plante]

Love to know this answer, I have the same issue.  I got chrome to run by having it open at login, for reason that works.  

Sharon 

Sharon Plante

Director of Technology 
Eagle Hill-Southport

214 Main Street

Southport, CT 06890

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[Joel Lowsky]

Hi Sharon and Michelle,

Aside from being a massive pain in the butt, ksadmin is a part of Chrome involved in automatic updating.

We manage Macs with managed preferences via workgroup manager, but I couldn't for the life of me find a way to whitelist ksadmin.  So you know what I did?  I deleted all the ksadmins from every student account.  (If you are using shared accounts, then you can delete ksadmin from those accounts).

Pros: ksadmin messages go away

Cons: Chrome doesn't self-update (and that's not necessarily a bad thing!)  Some people might not consider this part an acceptable downside.

Here's the secret:

Delete the file in (path below, at the user level, user in this case is "treetops"), using ARD for local machines.  Or, for network-homed users, use Spotlight or FindAnyFile on the OS X server, search for ksadmin, and delete them all.

sudo rm -f /Users/treetops/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/MacOS/ksadmin

Hope this helps.

Joel

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North Country School and Camp Treetops
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