Re: Using Mac as Admin

In article <fmoore-BA6782.12281614042008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Fred Moore <fmoore@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <jollyroger-4B82CE.11354513042008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I *have* explained this [why one should run as standard rather than admin],
over and over in this news group. Here we go again:

Thank you, JR for your forbearance and cogent recapitulation of the
reasons for running as standard. Thanks to Wes for his example--spot on.
And thanks to the others who responded to my entry in this thread.

Now if someone will just tell Adobe and Apple:

I and all the my clients who use Adobe products (there are several other
major offenders; Quark, you know who I'm talking about) have long
experience with Adobe products not running properly from non-admin
accounts, and even admin accounts which didn't do the Adobe install. So
far we have found no decent workaround for these permissions issues,
other than to run as an admin user. Adobe will seem to fix one or the
other of these issues, then they or others (re)appear. It's ends up
being a giant PITA to run as standard. Yes, even more of a pain than if
a machine is somehow compromised. I'm blessed with very intelligent
users (mostly) who I have thoroughly trained in security, so we view the
risk as low.

Oh I totally agree - it's inexcusable. Adobe applications make what
would othewise be a great thing a royal pain in the ass.

That said, I notice that I've been using a non-administrator account for
the past year or so with Adobe CS2 installed and the only related
problem I had was installing it. Once it was installed, I use it from
the non-admin account frequently without issue.

As to Apple, as an earlier poster so succinctly said (sorry, I forgot
who), if Apple is serious about running as a standard user, why does an
install leave a computer with one and only one user, who also is an
admin? The installer should explain that a standard account is 'best
practices', create one, and make it the default. If it were up to me the
installer would also create a second admin account for troubleshooting.
Again, Apple's not putting its money where its mouth is.

Absolutely!

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