Friday, September 22, 2017

Why admin isn't always admin

from here

You know how nowadays when you want to run something that requires administrator access you have to right-click and choose "Run as administrator" even though you're already logged in as a user who is a member of the Administrators group? Yeah, Microsoft had to literally change how administrative users work because people couldn't be trusted to follow the principle of least privilege.

Setting up 2 accounts (a non-admin one for everyday use and an admin one for actual administration) was apparently too complicated for most people so now it's just assumed that everyone is running as admin so to get the REAL administrative you have to "Run as administrator".

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