From 96516246c3a3cdebf149977b52e14a919b401a33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Mathewson Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:32:04 +0000 Subject: 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 --- specs/glider-spec.txt | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'specs') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3