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Re: user name and password?

From Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch>
Subject Re: user name and password?
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.apps
References <1445017b52.rogerarm@rogerarm.freeuk.com> <8sct49-239.ln1@news.sture.ch> <1ki1yng.1btgr1n8ks4hbN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz>
Organization PostgreSQL and SQLite
Date 2012-04-05 11:42 +0200
Message-ID <c06059-emg.ln1@news.sture.ch> (permalink)

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On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:39:27 +1200, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:

> Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:33:10 +0100, Roger Darlington wrote:
>> 
>> > My brother thought it would be a good idea if he started using his
>> > mac not in permanently administrator mode because he kept messing up
>> > things), so he put a username and  password on it (standard stuff,
>> > nothing clever).
>> 
>> That's a good idea in any case, and what many of us recommend.
> 
> Aye, I recommend everyone at any level of competence run in standard
> user mode, and allow guests and other untrusted users (e.g. kids) far
> less. This is standard good practice with any of the good techs I know,
> and the recommended way of running day to day tasks in the *nix world.

I recommend the same with Windows too.

-- 
Paul Sture

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user name and password? Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2012-04-04 07:33 +0100
  Re: user name and password? Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-04 10:20 +0200
    Re: user name and password? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-04-05 00:39 +1200
      Re: user name and password? Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2012-04-04 18:54 +0100
      Re: user name and password? Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-05 11:42 +0200
  Re: user name and password? Thom Rosario <thom@nospam.com> - 2012-04-05 09:14 -0500

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