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OS X doesn't have this problem usually, as most apps don't require admin rights to install, you just copy them to /Applications

/Applications requires administrative rights to update. I never use an admin account for every day activity, so I need to type in a password to update /Applications.



Yes, dragging the application there requires admin rights, but it doesn't grant those to the app itself.


What if the app had an suid binary?

Disclosure: I'm not a mac user, and never have been one long enough to mess around with /Applications.


It would run as your user. The files there aren't owned by root.




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