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Admin account versus non-admin account for daily work on OS X

From Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch>
Subject Admin account versus non-admin account for daily work on OS X
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Organization PostgreSQL and SQLite
Date 2012-04-22 22:39 +0200
Message-ID <as6e69-6r9.ln1@news.sture.ch> (permalink)

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Problem statement: A long time ago I decided that doing most of my daily 
work in a non-admin account was the only sensible thing to do.  For me 
it's a matter of discipline and good practice.

I have now come across someone who is technically very competent but is 
telling OS X newbies that using an admin account for daily work is much 
safer than in Windows and actually encouraging it.

For me it's a no brainer to say no, he's wrong, but I could do with some
technical arguments and hopefully examples to explain my point of view.

Cheers in advance for your input.

-- 
Paul Sture

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Admin account versus non-admin account for daily work on OS X Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-22 22:39 +0200
  Re: Admin account versus non-admin account for daily work on OS X Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2012-04-22 18:01 -0700
    Re: Admin account versus non-admin account for daily work on OS X "In a very dark China Blue, China Blue condition." <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2012-04-23 00:47 -0700
    Re: Admin account versus non-admin account for daily work on OS X "You're Kidding?" <foobar@wattsit.net> - 2012-04-23 08:37 -0400
      Re: Admin account versus non-admin account for daily work on OS X Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2012-04-23 06:09 -0700
        Re: Admin account versus non-admin account for daily work on OS X me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2012-04-23 15:22 +0000
          Re: Admin account versus non-admin account for daily work on OS X Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2012-04-23 09:09 -0700
            Re: Admin account versus non-admin account for daily work on OS X me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2012-04-23 16:32 +0000
              Re: Admin account versus non-admin account for daily work on OS X Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2012-04-23 10:12 -0700
        Re: Admin account versus non-admin account for daily work on OS X "You're Kidding?" <foobar@wattsit.net> - 2012-04-23 19:02 -0400
          Re: Admin account versus non-admin account for daily work on OS X Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2012-04-23 16:47 -0700
  Re: Admin account versus non-admin account for daily work on OS X Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2012-04-22 22:13 -0700
    Re: Admin account versus non-admin account for daily work on OS X JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2012-04-23 01:31 -0400
    Re: Admin account versus non-admin account for daily work on OS X dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-04-23 17:15 +1000
  Re: Admin account versus non-admin account for daily work on OS X jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-04-23 19:11 +1200
  Re: Admin account versus non-admin account for daily work on OS X TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2012-04-23 22:19 -0500
    Re: Admin account versus non-admin account for daily work on OS X me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2012-04-24 06:36 +0000
  Re: Admin account versus non-admin account for daily work on OS X billy@MIX.COM - 2012-04-24 04:39 +0000

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