I've not tested it, but I believe that another option is to set a machine level ChocolateyInstall variable pointing to one location and a user level ChocolateyInstall variable pointing to another location. The app gets installed to the current user (JOE in my question). If it doesn't require admin access, then we can open a non-admin PowerShell (or command prompt) and call choco install with it. Then the app will be installed as the admin user (PETER in my question). Then, to install any package there are two ways to do it: if it that requires admin access, we can open a an admin PowerShell (or command prompt) and call choco install with it. After setting the variable, we should procede to Chocolatey install, which can be done either as admin or non-admin user. If we define it at machine level, the same Chocolatey installation can be used for both admin and non-admin packages installs. That variable can be set at machine or user level.
In the Chocolatey non-administrative section of the docs, it says that to install Chocolatey as non-admin, first we have to define a ChocolateyInstall environment variable pointing to a location where Chocolatey should be installed and all users have access (I've used C:\Users\Public\Chocolatey folder). I've discovered how to do it for both administrative and non-administrative users.
If I run the installer manually, it asks me for PETER's credentials, but the app gets installed in JOE's user path.Ĭan I get the same behavior with Chocolatey? Am I doing something wrong or can I workaround this some way? But when I run a "single user" install (such as Wunderlist, which is installed at C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\.) it get's installed at PETER's AppData and not JOE's AppData. If the app is a install for all users (such as Sublime Text 3, installed at C:\Program Users folder), everything goes OK. Then I can install Chocolatey (in C:\ProgramData\Chocolatey) and install packages on C:\ProgramData\Chocolatey\libs. When I open a prompt (or powershell) as admin, windows UAC asks for a admin username/password. So, lets say I have a user JOE that is not an admin on the domain (neither on the machine) and a user PETER that is admin on both, and that I'm logged in as JOE. I have a domain set on Win 2008 and all my users are not admins. I´m starting to use Chocolatey in the network of my hotel for software installs.
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