On Nov 1, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Roland Dobbins wrote:

>
> On Nov 2, 2007, at 1:45 AM, Dave Schroeder wrote:
>
>> But it's a Trojan, which requires user interaction, downloading
>> something manually, and expressly granting it administrative
>> privileges to your machine.
>
> This brings up an interesting point - how many Mac users go to the
> trouble of setting up a nonprivileged account and then do their
> normal work under that? I don't know, but my guess is that it's a
> pretty low percentage, especially as, at least with Tiger, one runs
> into some issues such as borked /Applications perms/ownership which
> require a *NIX background to even understand, much less remedy.
>
> How many Mac users have been faced with a seemingly-random request
> to grant a non-obvious background app/utility Keychain access, not
> to mention commonly-used apps asking for it without an easily-
> discerned reason? And in such situation, what do they typically
> tend to do (I've my own opinion about this, but clue welcomed).

From my own experience, I've run in both admin and non admin
accounts, Here at work, my desktop is setup as an admin account which
I run in and don't worry about bad things happening. But then again,
with what I'm doing, some of which involves programming I am very
careful to look at all the messages that pop up on my computer.

At home, I have a macbook running leopard which I intentionally set up
with an admin account and then 2 separate non admin accounts for me
and my wife. I've never had any issues running with a non-admin
account in tiger which is how the macbook started.

So for my opinion, to an extent, if someone was to download a file off
the internet, and it asked for an admin password I would hope that
people would look at it and at least be relatively certain that it's
what they expect it... None of the "Please give us your username/
password to open this picture of naked people" (Those people get what
they deserve in my opinion) :)

But I'm also not a normal user.
--

Jason Pruim
Raoset Inc.
Technology Manager
MQC Specialist
3251 132nd ave
Holland, MI, 49424
www.raoset.com
japruim (at) raoset (dot) com [email concealed]

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