Re:Notarizing Your Mac Software for macOS Catalina
by pilif on Monday October 07, 2019 @10:24AM
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>My position is nobody ought to probably be running as admin for the vast majority of tasks
in macOS, even if you run as admin, the only thing that gives you is `sudo` access. Your "admin" user still is a normal user, but it's allowed to gain elevated privileges by supplying their password (or doing biometric auth).
The only difference between running as an admin and not running as an admin is that in the former case you don't have to type in your user name.
>having to elevate to an admin account in order to "download anything" would be a nightmare for any substantial IT department to support
normal users can download all they want. They can't execute it though. That's absolutely what I would like my machine to be configured as.
in macOS, even if you run as admin, the only thing that gives you is `sudo` access. Your "admin" user still is a normal user, but it's allowed to gain elevated privileges by supplying their password (or doing biometric auth).
The only difference between running as an admin and not running as an admin is that in the former case you don't have to type in your user name.
>having to elevate to an admin account in order to "download anything" would be a nightmare for any substantial IT department to support
normal users can download all they want. They can't execute it though. That's absolutely what I would like my machine to be configured as.