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| author | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2008-09-15 14:32:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2008-09-15 14:32:04 +0000 |
| commit | 96516246c3a3cdebf149977b52e14a919b401a33 (patch) | |
| tree | 2a2d322a941a0ad4668d76678bae8b0d2c44698f /specs | |
| parent | 7085963051fec0bbf72989c1ac8e9b7899f770a2 (diff) | |
RE-clarify what parts of the system need admin privileges, since apparently that is not obvious even to smart people.
git-svn-id: file:///home/or/svnrepo/updater/trunk@16912 55e972cd-5a19-0410-ae62-a4d7a52db4cd
Diffstat (limited to 'specs')
| -rw-r--r-- | specs/glider-spec.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/specs/glider-spec.txt b/specs/glider-spec.txt index 5576887..cf0bc49 100644 --- a/specs/glider-spec.txt +++ b/specs/glider-spec.txt @@ -120,9 +120,14 @@ these packages will be platform-dependent: they could be pkg files on OSX, MSI files on Win32, RPMs or DEBs on Linux, and so on. Glider should query the user for permission to start - installing packages, then install the packages. (All other + installing packages, then install the packages. All other steps should generally happen automatically, in the - background, without needing user intervention.) + background, without needing user intervention. This part + needs user intervention because (A) it isn't nice to install + updates without permission, and (B) in some configurations, + it needs administrator privileges. + + (NO OTHER PART of this design needs administrator privileges.) 1.1. The repository @@ -323,7 +328,7 @@ used to sign documents. The type determines the interpretation of KEYVAL. - The ID of a key is the type field concatenated with the SHA-256 + The ID of a key is a two-element list of the type and the SHA-256 hash of the canonical encoding of the KEYVAL field. We define one keytype at present: 'rsa'. The KEYVAL in this case |