[Sparkle] Non-Administrators

[Seth Willits]

On May 13, 2008, at 3:58 PM, Andy Matuschak wrote:

> Guys, I just realized that the whole authentication support thing in  
> Sparkle might be kind of dumb. I mean, should we even be bothering  
> users who don't have privs to update the apps? Sure, they might have  
> the password and could be intentionally running an unprivileged  
> account, but that doesn't seem like the common case.
>
> Should I just make it not check for updates unless explicitly told  
> to do so if Sparkle doesn't have permission to overwrite the current  
> app?

I wouldn't. If they can't update it, then they'd be turning off  
automatic checking anyway. I have a lot of users who run under  
standard accounts and still update the app regularly.



--
Seth Willits




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