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Authored by: neill on Mar 03, '09 11:41:03AM

>>I would go insane with permissions issues if I weren't
>>running as an Admin user everyday.

How hard is it to just type in an admin account name and password when requested. Granted . . . it's harder than just being an admin user all the time . . .and it pops up when you (for instance) try to copy something to the Applications folder; but it really doesn't happen all that often. Given the much greater access that an admin user has and the possibility (admittedly relatively low) of a worm/trojan/what-have-you coming in that tries to do bad things . . .I gave up long ago and moved all of my home machine accounts to non admin (except my file server which stays logged in all the time as admin so that Time Machine will properly handle parts of my backup routines). Everything else runs day to day as normal user; authenticating as necessary.



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Authored by: frgough on Mar 03, '09 11:52:36AM

How much more secure is it to have to type in admin name and password instead of just password?

Even with a non-admin privileges, my trojan can play merry hob with your personal data.



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Authored by: Anonymous on Mar 04, '09 10:50:13AM
No, the issue is that some actions do not require a password when using an administrative user account.

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Authored by: frgough on Mar 05, '09 07:21:55AM

Like what?



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Authored by: ansiwen on Mar 06, '09 10:57:39AM

Exactly, ONLY with your personal data, and it cannot modify system wide executables in /Applications or /Library



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