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Admin vs Root Authorization

Subject: Admin vs Root Authorization
From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:11:04 +0100

Stupid question:

What is the theoretical limit when you need to stop asking for Admin Authorization and start asking for Root Authorization?

I'm asking this because the limit is not clearly defined I think (or I just don't get it).

If I take for instance the BroadBandTunerInstaller Metapackage that Apple just released, this pseudo-installer (interesting solution BTW) is requiring Admin Authorization to change the /private/etc/sysctl.conf file whose owner is root:wheel.

In this case, since this is a system owned file, I would tend to believe Root Authorization should be required. Yet only Admin authorization is requested.


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