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Won't the non-admin account just ask for the admin password? Since people are used to doing this when installing apps, it comes second nature..

If people are willing to click through several steps of an installer app, they'll also type in the admin password if requested.

This is only useful for other family members that you do not trust for safety reasons.

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Right, but the point of this article is that it no longer needs the admin password. If you're running in a non-admin account (like I am), it'll still need the password, and thus user interaction, so it'll be trivial to stop.

Even without the password you still need user interaction, the user has to click next multiple times during install.

True. Somewhere I thought I read that the installer ran without user interaction in this variant, but thinking about it, that doesn't make much sense.

Though, if you're concerned about having to give an admin password (as evidently some people are), running in a non-admin account would solve that. (Also, if you have write privileges to /Applications, it's possible to write a script overwriting the contents of a trusted executable with malicious code, but that isn't how this works so it's slightly irrelevant.)

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