[Sparkle] RE : Non-Administrators

[Philippe Casgrain]

I know you decided to leave it in (good decision), but here's one more vote for that.

I (and all my users) are regular accounts. I only have one admin account per machine. If the user does not have the password, they can't install the update and may be annoyed enough to turn it off. But they can't do anything without that password.

On the plus side, they can ask me if I can update the app, which I usually do from my regular account :-)

Philippe

-------- Message d'origine--------
De: sparkle-bounces at lists.andymatuschak.org de la part de Andy Matuschak
Date: mar. 2008-05-13 18:58
À: A mailing list for developers using Sparkle
Objet : [Sparkle] Non-Administrators
 
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?

- Andy Matuschak



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