[X4U] Installing Firefox

[Vince Lewis]

On Aug 1, 2007, at 5:51 AM, T.L. Miller wrote:

> On 7/31/07, at 5:31 PM, Daly Jessup jessup at san.rr.com said:
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>> Well, when you download it from versiontracker or some place like
>> that, it just opens a disk image and you drag it to your desktop. No
>> installer involved there, either, just drag and drop. So it kind of
>> makes sense to me that they wouldn't suddenly have an installer for
>> the automatic download.
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> Again, when I'm not asked for a password when I download and install
> something, I find that highly unusual.
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> Tom Miller
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> "The only time we see the middle of the road is as
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What Daly told you was that there is no need to provide a password if  
you are in an admin account and the software vendor doesn't need to  
install additional files in someplace outside your individual user's  
directory. If you want to always be required to provide a password,  
make a non-admin account and use that as your primary account. Then  
every install will ask for an admin password.
	As far as finding this behavior "highly unusual," the fact is that  
this is the Apple-recommended way to deliver apps to end users.
ciao,
Vince