Allow updates using administrator credentials from non administrator accounts

[robbiemu]

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On the mac, update button appears regardless of account privileges, clicking it either directly installs the update (if administrator) or requests elevated privileges (a username and password modal is presented and after success, update installs.

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Every time there is update, I have to download and overwrite, then relaunch the terminal, or else log out, log in as administrador, and then do the update from warp with no issues. Apps can apply these types of changes by requesting administrator access in an update (which I guess must be a separate process and this is why you are not doing it yet). This is really the standard in the mac environment, and warp should do it.

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[dannyneira]

Thanks for this feature request @robbiemu. I think this may be difficult to implement given some users don't get admin rights (especially on work machines). Please see our docs for any further issues with updating Warp without admin rights. https://docs.warp.dev/help/updating-warp#auto-update-issues

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[Macaldente]

@dannyneira I really do not understand your reply to @robbiemu because he requested the other way round. It is not possible to install or update Warp by non-administators anyway.

We are talking about the absolutely normal way to authorize an application update by the admin-id and admin-password if the Warp user is an ordinary non-admin on a Mac. Every single application on a Mac I can install or update when logged in as a non-admin (= standard user account) by typing admin-id and admin-password.

It is a standard mode of authorization how every single Mac application asks for the authorization when updating any application – except Warp. Screenshot attached for a Brave browser update – in German.

It is hard to understand as Mac user that this auth-prompt is not shown for updating warp but I rather have to download Warp app image for every single Warp update.

[dannyneira]

Understood @Macaldente, it's something we'd need to implement in Warp. It could be improved, but the manual updates are the only workaround, so we appreciate your patience.