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Software update didn't ask for admin password

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ventmore

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I ran software update to get iTunes 9.2, and the 10.6.4 update. I clicked to install both updates which it did after asking for confirmation, but it didn't ask me for my admin password. Do some updates not require a password?

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Ventmore
 
I'm running as a Standard User. Everytime I go the run Software Updates, it now ask me for admin password before even checking. I don't remember it always doing that. Am I just not remembering correctly?
 
Did it ask for password before it searched for updates? That's when it asks me for mine.
 
ventmore said:
I ran software update to get iTunes 9.2, and the 10.6.4 update. I clicked to install both updates which it did after asking for confirmation, but it didn't ask me for my admin password.
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Likewise.

Thought I was nuts as installation immediately took off without a password prompt. Figured it was a short-term memory thing until I saw this.
 
2nd4ever said:
Likewise.

Thought I was nuts as installation immediately took off without a password prompt. Figured it was a short-term memory thing until I saw this.
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Thanks for replying mate...at least I know it wasn't just me.

I know what you mean......I doubted myself a little too......like maybe I'd just tapped my password in without thinking :)
 
maybe it no longer asks for the password because the updates/installers are digitally signed by Apple (noticed that 'signed-icon' in the installer's window title bar when I installed the recent updates)
 
thewretched said:
maybe it no longer asks for the password because the updates/installers are digitally signed by Apple (noticed that 'signed-icon' in the installer's window title bar when I installed the recent updates)
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That seems to be the case since other software still asks for passwords to install things. Glad I found this thread via mroogle; I was concerned when I noticed it didn't ask for password for software update.
 
If you are a standard user than it asks you before searching for the updates and at the install.

Admins usually only get prompted at the install although not everytime... one pattern i did notice was that updates that require restarts usually prompt with password.
 
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