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> Third party devices do need automatic driver install of some form. This is a mouse. It works perfectly fine as a USB HID device. The software install is to
by jandrese 5y ago
> Third party devices do need automatic driver install of some form.
This is a mouse. It works perfectly fine as a USB HID device. The software install is to unlock optional features on the device, and that can be done after the user has authenticated to the host and gone through a security elevation prompt.
In fact there are precious few third party devices without a usable built-in driver that absolutely need to be available before the user had logged in. I can't think of any.
- IncRnd 5y ago> The software install is to unlock optional features on the device, and that can be done after the user has authenticated to the host and gone through a security elevation prompt. That's not true. It may help you to watch the video. The user was authenticated as a regular logged-in user. It was the driver installation that had elevated rights as SYSTEM, and there was no security elevation prompt.
- andreareina 5y agoI'm reading the "can" here as normative, i.e. because the optional stuff CAN be done after auth, it SHOULD be restricted to being done only after auth.
- jandrese 5y agoYeah, that's my point. There should be no automatic rights elevation. Adding a driver should require a prompt, period. I assume the mouse driver only bypasses it because it wants to have the driver installed before the user has logged in.