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10.6: Make a temporary Administrator account
This seems a little dangerous. You have users who you made non-admins for a reason. It sounds ripe for these people to come up with excuses why they need admin access and then do whatever they want. What stops them from creating a local admin account for themselves while they have the chance?
10.6: Make a temporary Administrator account
Or just deleting the at command.
10.6: Make a temporary Administrator account
I agree with both of you. You are absolutely correct; this can be dangerous. But, that very point is precisely why I make every attempt to find solutions that does not involve giving a user admin rights, before resorting to something like this. Once a user is an admin, there's no stopping them from whatever they want to do. With that said, there's the ideal world where no regular user ever needs administrative privileges - and then there is reality. Honestly, I am very hard-nosed about giving anyone admin rights, but there are times that it is unavoidable without going and physically sitting besdie a user and typing in the admin password. If anyone looks at this solution as a something they should use often, then they likely need to reevaluate why they even bother with non-admin accounts. |
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