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Right. But Chrome allows you to do that if the administrator has enabled it. To handle that securely, though, would likely require a specifically restricted dae
by moduspol 7y ago
Right. But Chrome allows you to do that if the administrator has enabled it. To handle that securely, though, would likely require a specifically restricted daemon or setuid process that is well beyond most normal update use cases. And that might explain why they couldn't just use Sparkle.
- kccqzy 7y agoThe point is this shouldn't need to be done. If an administrator has installed an app, then it's the administrator's responsibility to update it. If I want to update an app myself, I'd install it in ~/Applications instead.