[bookport] Re: Why Administrator?
- From: "LARRY SKUTCHAN" <lskutchan@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:19:01 -0500
After seeing all the negative response to this idea, we are thinking of
warning you that we cannot tell if the flash card is free from errors
and that we recommend you check the card yourself. We will then offer
to let you proceed if you wish. Of course if you are using XP and have
admin rights, we will correct errors on the card then proceed with the
update.
>>> ewers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Wednesday, March 23, 2005 2:11:21 PM >>>
Larry, given your reasoning below, I for one would like to go with
your
proposal requiring the user to have administrative privileges. The
only
problem I see is that one or more people on the list might not have
privileges. Then, I suppose, they could get the person who does have
those privileges to accomplish the update.
Neal
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Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12:49 PM
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Subject: [bookport] Why Administrator?
The reason we are considering requiring administrative rights before
applying a firmware update is that we want to check and/or fix errors
on
the flash card before applying the firmware update. If you do not
have
admin rights, you cannot run chkdsk, and we cannot run the automated
version of this tool to correct errors.
Now, if you are saying, that you do not care to check for errors
before
applying the update and you know the update could damage the device if
there are errors on the card, and you would have to send it back in,
that is fine. We just assumed that you would prefer to check the
media
for damages, correct those errors, then apply the update on a known
good
structure even at the cost of the inconvenience of logging in as an
administrator.
The fact is that you need to check the flash card for errors, and we
can
do that for you. Even if you want to do it yourself though, you will
need to have admin rights.
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