[Samba] Administrator rights for Windows update?

[Nicki Messerschmidt]

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On Thu, 6 May 2004, Paul Gienger wrote:
> Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH wrote:
>>is it really necessary to add every user to the administrators group to
>>allow them to update their windows boxes? I really can't believe this...
> Is it necessary to give root access to install system wide packages in
> UNIX?  There is really no difference, aside from this being a new
> concept to long time windows users.   Installing updates requires enough
> permissions to modify/delete critical system files, and you don't want
> Joe Schmoe doing that.
No, but I thought that there might be a service running in the system
context to automate this whole procedure... And this service should work
without a sus (security update server)...


Cheers
Nicki

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