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by mikeryan 1408 days ago
That’s why I said “essentially” the whole point of the attack is that the installer gets “root privileges” when the user enters their password to install. It’s kind of moot if they’re actually root when it’s got super user privileges.
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I should have clarified. My account is a Standard non admin account. It never asked me for my password or an Admin password.