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Do OSX security updates need admin PW?

  • November 24, 2016
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Hi all,

I set our Macs(Sierra) to do automatic Security Updates. In the past I think I can remember the updates were asking for admin credentials.

Are these admin credentials now not needed anymore and OSX is installing them straight away?

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    • November 25, 2016

    There are two possibilities:
    -Updates for macOS (in the Mac App Store) do require user aproving (but non-admins can do that too)
    -Updates for Apps in the App store may ask for the AppleID they are licenced to at update time. ( non-admins can do that)
    OR
    -There is a separate process for 'important' security updates, which will always install (if sofwareupdate checks are scheduled)
    that is hardly used, as far as I know only once: see derflounder

    Since 10.9 (I think) all things in the Mac App store (including system and security updates) do no require admin rights

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