Admin user or not...

[Phil Ward]

Morning all,

I’ve just taken delivery of a refurb MacBook Pro and I’m about to set it up. I’ve never really known if it makes sense or not to make the primary user (i.e me), also the admin account. What’s the group wisdom on this?

Ta

Phil

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[A C Crooks]

I’ve always set up an account called Admin for use only for maintenance and updating OS purposes. I use a non-admin account for my personal use thus largely unable to balls up the OS. Depended if you need much access to admin features. I prefer safety. 

Regards,

Tony

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Morning all,

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[Jason Davies]

The short version is that it's a bad idea to be running as an admin as it is less secure. Better to have a separate admin account with a unique and hard-to-guess name (not 'admin'!) and a good secure password.

cheers,
Jason

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Cheers,

Jason