Re: auto-updater

Strong advice: *don't* try to be clever here. There may well be a very good
reason why some users are running with privilege levels that disallow them
from updating anything in their computer. Respect that. Show the user an
error message saying that their rights do not allow the update, and also
inform them what to do to make it happen.

A service that runs *all the time*, so that it can *break my company's user
rights policies*? That's reason enough to never buy anything from that
company ever again. You don't want to be in that bunch of morons, trust me.


Antti Kurenniemi

"Brad White" <bwhite_at_inebraska_dot_com@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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We have an autoupdate component that we have written.

Just one question.
What is the best way to handle the situation where
the user does not have sufficient permissions
to run the update installer?

The admin originally installed the app, but
most likely won't be running the app. Can we
leverage that in any way? Set the updater
to always run as admin somehow?

These guys have the same problem and solve it very nicely
http://www.powerprogrammer.co.uk/web-update-flash-demo/web-update-flash-demo.html

by having a service that always runs in the background
with admin priviledges, just waiting to be kicked off.
Seems like way overkill to me.
Firefox just fails if you don't have sufficient priviledges.

I don't want to store the admin password at install time,
but it wouldn't work anyway if they ever changed their password.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Brad.




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