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> On Jun 6, 2013 7:40 PM, Todd And Margo Chester <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> On 06/06/2013 01:18 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>  > I have had no
>  > problems at all, except that the updates can not be installed
>  > by the users -- you have to fire up Firefox as root.
>
> I just filed this: Linux upgrade required root privileges.
> And, it's looking good for implementation:
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=880504
>
> "Ya All" please vote for it!
>
> -T


On 06/06/2013 05:03 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:

 > Todd and Margo (I'm never sure who I'm addressing with you lol)
Margo is the trophy (first) wife.  The "-T" at the end stands
for "Todd"

 >
 > There is a long standing security reason non root users can't update
 > software which affect all users on the system. Remember over all *ux
 > design is based on a multi user model where only people granted root
 > access by password access or even better sudo access can affect all
 > users. This is a good thing, it was done in response to computer viruses
 > in the 70s.

yes.  I agree.  If you look over at the bug report, the request
is to prompt the user for the "root" password.  Sort of like
Mac OS does when they are install new packages.  If the user does not
know the root password, too bad.  At least it will not try to
install and then crash.  There are several packages out there
that already do this (ls /usr/bin | grep -i config)

-T