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non-admin account unnecessary...
you may not realize this, but there is nothing magical about an admin account over non-admin accounts other than the ability to run the sudo command.
non-admin account unnecessary...
"any account can run su ; it's only requirement is the root password."
non-admin account unnecessary...
If you try to su while logged in as non-admin, it will tell you that you have to be in the group closest to root, "wheel," in order to su. And you do have to be in the special sudo file in order to sudo.
non-admin account unnecessary...
> I believe the user must be in /etc/sudoers to be able to use su
this may be true for just su, but not true for su username. I use this regularly on my home machine which I keep logged in to a non-admin account. In order to do admin activities in Terminal, I first need to su admin, then I'm able to use sudo to get things done.
non-admin account unnecessary...
there is more to the admin account than the ability to use sudo. it does, after all, add your username to the group "admin" as well. so if a file is owned by someowner:admin, with rw privileges for owner and group, but not for everyone, then an admin user could access this file while a non-admin user could not access this file (they would, by default, be a member of group "staff", not "admin"). if everyone was admin (i.e. there were no non-admin accounts) then this distinction would be eliminated even though it has nothing to do with the ability to obtain root privileges.
non-admin account unnecessary...
duh, there's more to OS X than Terminal.app. Admin's can change stuff in the gui tools like System Preferences. |
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