On Sat, 5 May 2007, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> I strongly suggest that you set up an administrator account that is
> separate from the user account that you do your work in, and remove
> system administration privileges from that user account. Even though
> it is a bit of an annoyance to have to login as administrator to
> install software, it's the correct way to run nearly any modern
> operating system (Windows XP, Mac OS X, Linux and UNIX ...)
>
> I set up every system Mac OS X I am contracted to work on this way.
> With very very few exceptions, it works exactly as it is supposed to.
> There are a couple of 'still not yet properly sorted' applications
> that require the user to have administrator privileges ... they
> should be avoided.
>
> Godfrey
>
Agreed. It's unfortunate that Winders and some applications
penalize a "correct" setup like that. I rarely use Windows, but I've
never come across the equivalent of the 'sudo' command under unix. Very
handy for running something as somebody else without having to log in as
them.
-Cory
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