[bookport] Re: Why Administrator?
- From: "Liam Martin" <noatman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:22:15 +0000
It turns out I do have administrator privilege at work. That shows how much
I pay attention to these things.
>From: "LARRY SKUTCHAN" <lskutchan@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [bookport] Re: Why Administrator?
>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
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of LARRY SKUTCHAN
>Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12:49 PM
>To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>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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