[Mozilla Enterprise] ESR 68.6.0 update requires admin rights?

Mike Kaply mkaply at mozilla.com
Tue Mar 10 20:13:10 UTC 2020


There was nothing new in this release related to this. You said:

" users are being prompted for administrative credentials after launching
68.6.0 the first time"

So Firefox is launching?

Can you provide more detail on what is happening and open a bug in bugzilla?

Mike

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 10:55 AM Vrooman, Brad via Enterprise <
enterprise at mozilla.org> wrote:

> Hello!
>
>
>
> In the past, Firefox ESR seems to have been able to keep itself updated on
> our macOS machines even when running under a non-admin user, provided that
> user has read/write permission to the app bundle itself. However, we’ve
> seen a few reports that users are being prompted for administrative
> credentials after launching 68.6.0 the first time.
>
>
>
> Is this expected? Is there a workaround, or something we can do to prep
> for the update such that non-admin users can continue to operate as they
> have in the past?
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>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> *Brad Vrooman*
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