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Re: Running as Administrator (was Re: Need help w/BootX icon)     

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Author: Jolly Roger
Date: May 11, 2008 10:34

... is an administrator account. But running with higher privileges than needed is ... or inadvertently) is executed with administrative privileges with access to more ..., enter a name, such as "Administrator" (without quotes). There is nothing ... a secure password. If you need help creating a secure password, .... Click Create Account. Next, remove administrator abilities from your normal user ...
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Author: Jolly Roger
Date: May 12, 2008 06:51

...read this sentence very carefully: "If you run as admin, you can damage the system yourself - no malware needed." I read it very carefully, which ...That person is running as administrator, and may have unintentionally allowed his BootX file to be modified and copied ... for *his* password, but for an administrator's *name* and *password*. -- Please send all...
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Author: Jolly Roger
Date: May 11, 2008 18:46

...to the dangers posed by running as single account/owner/admin...than just that. If you run as admin, you can damage...the system yourself - no malware needed. And you make it *easier...in that belief. I run as administrator 100%% of the time...sentence very carefully: "If you run as admin, you can damage...the system yourself - no malware needed." -- Please send all responses to...
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Author: Mark Conrad
Date: May 11, 2008 18:34

... the system yourself - no malware needed. And you make it *easier* for ... posted "unlikely", not "impossible") I run as administrator 100%% of the time, for..., in years of operating as administrator) Furthermore I spend hours surfing the web every night as administrator, going to many obscure websites, ... of setting up and operating non-administrative user accounts. I know, picky, ...
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Author: Jolly Roger
Date: May 11, 2008 11:26

...introduction will scare them away. The manual does contain advanced topics that a lot of people might want to avoid, but running as administrator, and creating a non-administrator account aren't what I consider to be particularly advanced topics. Average users, in the unlikely event that they...
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Author: Mike Rosenberg
Date: May 11, 2008 11:24

...above introduction will scare them away. The manual does contain advanced topics that a lot of people might want to avoid, but running as administrator, and creating a non-administrator account aren't what I consider to be particularly advanced topics. Average users, in the unlikely event that they even...
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Author: Jolly Roger
Date: May 11, 2008 11:16

... is an administrator account. But running with higher privileges than needed is ... or inadvertently) is executed with administrative privileges with access to more ..., enter a name, such as "Administrator" (without quotes). There is nothing ... a secure password. If you need help creating a secure password, .... Click Create Account. Next, remove administrator abilities from your normal user ...
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Author: Jolly Roger
Date: May 11, 2008 11:13

... <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote: While nothing about this is mentioned in the manual that comes with your Mac, Apple does recommend not running as administrator in the Mac OS X security guidelines published on their web site: <http://www.apple.com/support/security/guides/> "...
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Author: Mike Rosenberg
Date: May 11, 2008 10:55

...> While nothing about this is mentioned in the manual that comes with your Mac, Apple does recommend not running as administrator in the Mac OS X security guidelines published on their web site: <http://www...., but I do have an issue with making people think they aren't running their Macs properly by using them exactly as Apple lead them to by ...
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Author: Jolly Roger
Date: May 11, 2008 10:47

...the system yourself - no malware needed. And you make it *easier*... you do, every program you run (directly or indirectly, purposefully or inadvertently) is executed with administrative privileges with access to more...or worse, if you unknowingly run a trojan / worm in that...username and password of an administrator when prompted. So while you...of a reason to run as administrator for day-to-day...
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