Software update didn't ask for admin password

[ventmore]

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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[mac2x]

You aren't running as root are you? (bad idea if you are, BTW)

 

[ventmore]

You aren't running as root are you? (bad idea if you are, BTW)

No......I do run as admin though 🙂

 

[frozencarbonite]

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?

 

[angelwatt]

Did it ask for password before it searched for updates? That's when it asks me for mine.

 

[frozencarbonite]

Did it ask for password before it searched for updates? That's when it asks me for mine.

Yes, it asked me before it searched for updates. I just don't remember that on Leopard. Maybe it's a Snow Leopard feature.

 

[ventmore]

It didn't ask me at all.

 

[2nd4ever]

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.

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.

 

[ventmore]

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.

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 🙂

 

[thewretched]

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)

 

[old-wiz]

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)

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.

 

[416049]

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.