{"id":38293,"date":"2023-01-26T15:45:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T20:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38293"},"modified":"2023-01-27T07:37:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T12:37:07","slug":"normal-mac-user-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/26\/normal-mac-user-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Standard Mac User Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2023\/01\/24\/is-it-more-secure-to-be-a-normal-or-admin-user\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2023\/01\/24\/is-it-more-secure-to-be-a-normal-or-admin-user\/\">\n<p>There are a few unexpected features that aren&rsquo;t available to the normal user, of which the most irksome is accessing the log.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>A traditional argument in favour of running as a normal user is that it separates your data from the system, and from other users. Thankfully, in all recent versions of macOS, you don&rsquo;t need this any more: macOS is tucked away on a read-only snapshot on your System volume, and Privacy &amp; Security work just the same whether you&rsquo;re an admin or normal user.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>All built-in macOS security protection applies equally to all users, regardless of their privileges.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Even with an admin account, I get prompted for my password all the time. So, these days, it seems like standard accounts are mostly useful for when the administrator is a different person from the user, who is to be prevented from changing settings or installing certain software. The old recommendation&mdash;which I didn&rsquo;t follow&mdash;of having the administrator use a standard account most of time makes even less sense now.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Oakley: There are a few unexpected features that aren&rsquo;t available to the normal user, of which the most irksome is accessing the log. [&#8230;] A traditional argument in favour of running as a normal user is that it separates your data from the system, and from other users. Thankfully, in all recent versions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-01-26T20:46:01Z","apple_news_api_id":"0eba3911-a9a0-45ea-bf25-3a3f41885243","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-01-27T12:37:10Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ADro5EamgReq_JTo_QYhSQw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,2223,1504,48,2277],"class_list":["post-38293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-os_log","tag-security","tag-signed-system-volume-ssv"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38296,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38293\/revisions\/38296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}