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app store and system security — today only, you get in free!

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  app store and system security — today only, you get in free! Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-12-10 00:39 -0500
    Re: app store and system security — today only, you get in free! Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-12-10 01:08 -0500

#19853 — app store and system security — today only, you get in free!

Was in a NON-admin account (and not a sudoer).

App store offered Remote Desktop Client Update.

I clicked 'install'  It installed without the customary
request for my Apple ID and password, nor did it ask the normal
"Please enter an administrator's name and password to install software"

And this was immediately after boot up, and the first day
in two weeks that I had internet access.

-- 
Wes Groleau

   “But, Professor! I didn't plagiarize! I paid someone to
    write the essay for me, and that person plagiarized!"
               — from http://rateyourstudents.blogspot.com

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#19857

In article <l869et$486$1@dont-email.me>,
 Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> wrote:

> Was in a NON-admin account (and not a sudoer).
> 
> App store offered Remote Desktop Client Update.
> 
> I clicked 'install'  It installed without the customary
> request for my Apple ID and password, nor did it ask the normal
> "Please enter an administrator's name and password to install software"
> 
> And this was immediately after boot up, and the first day
> in two weeks that I had internet access.

Check the ownership of the application -- maybe it's not owned by root 
as usual.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***

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