site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com On mercredi, décembre 6, 2006, at 01:16 AM, Kevin Hoyt wrote: I'm confused... The original poster is hoping for the "death of Admin Authentication" I may need to clarify why I'm glad Admin Authorization is going away. At the beginning, there were 2 authorizations mode: None & Root. _______________________________________________ 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... Then, IIRC, Admin authorization arrived with a new nice plist format on Jaguar. Then problems started: when admin authorization was on, some things behaved differently from what was expected (directory permissions not being set correctly on 10.3 when the package is relocatable for instance). Another issue is the confusion introduced by Admin authentication vs Root authentication as it's difficult to sort out which one to use in which case. So far I haven't encountered a package made by Apple and only requiring Admin authentication. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com