site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com On mercredi, novembre 30, 2005, at 10:49 PM, Peter Bierman wrote: It's a policy distinction, not a technical one. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... 'Admin' and 'Root' authorization in the Installer enable the exact same behavior for the install. They differ only in that 'Admin' authorization does NOT ask users in the admin group for a password first. Much like System Preferences does not force admin users to enter their password for otherwise protected operations. Unfortunately, the installer itself can not determine if your package "should" ask for a password. 99% of the time, such packages probably should ask for a password and use "Root" authentication. There's been plenty of confusion about this, even inside Apple, so the behavior of these flags is currently being reviewed and may change if we decide that "admin" authorization is an unnecessary risk. The issue isn't capability, but notification. Asking users for their password in order to "alert" them to an unusual situation can lead to password fatigue, so in the case of the broadband tuner, someone decided that an extra "heads up" wasn't necessary. Hum, if you are a user with an admin account but do not belong to the sudoers, does this mean that Admin Authorization is still the same as Root Authorization? This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com