"There have been some comments on the blog recently suggesting that the UAC dialog boxes in Windows Vista are not accessible and I just wanted to clear up the confusion here. First, to set the scene though. When a user attempts to access an application or setting that requires elevated privileges to run, they are presented with a UAC prompt, the appearance of which will vary depending on the type of user they are or the type of application that is trying to run."
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OS X seems to only ask if it's really a system change, and they've done it quite well. There's a good balance, it asks when it needs to, but not enough to bug the user.
Unless the app decides it would rather not prompt the user (this has been posted before):
"There exists a pretty significant interface problem with the Apple Installer program such that any package requesting admin access via the AdminAuthorization key, when run in an admin user account, is given full root-level access without providing the user with a password prompt during the install. This is even explained in Apple's Installer documentation as proper behavior. The distinction between the AdminAuthorization and RootAuthorization keys is, simply, whether or not the admin user is prompted for a password; the end powers are exactly the same and it is up to the creator of the package as to if he will be kind enough to ask for a password."
http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/security/how_a_malformed_installer_p...
http://www.codepoetry.net/2006/09/20/thwap_thwap_is_this_thing_on
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2006-04-10
I totally agree. Which systems have done it better? The *nix'es? I dont think so.
_Nobody_ could have implemented this stuff, without bugging the users somehow. I think microsoft did it OK.