Admin Account for everyday work

[otherguy5]

How many of you are on an admit account doing every day stuff like work, editing, browsing etc? I read somewhere that it's more secure to use a standard account for all this... your thoughts?

 

[MacDawg]

It would be more secure

That said, my account I use is an Admin account

 

[chrfr]

How many of you are on an admit account doing every day stuff like work, editing, browsing etc? I read somewhere that it's more secure to use a standard account for all this... your thoughts?

There's only a very marginal difference in security, if any. Even an admin user is going to be prompted for credentials to do anything to the system.

 

[puma1552]

I use an admin account, as it's the only account on the machine since it's my personal machine.

 

[FrostyF]

Have to put your password in to do anything on Mojave so not much difference.

 

[PROFESS0R]

I use an admin account and I enable root for unix terminal commands.

 

[Howard2k]

Single user machine but I keep a separate admin account. My user account (usual account) is not an admin.

 

[Trey M]

I think using a non-admin account when it's your computer is being overly cautious. I can think about certain tasks where maybe that would be a wise, secure choice but definitely not necessary just for your everyday computing. Hope that helps.

 

[Fishrrman]

Since I first moved to OS X in 2004, I've always used "administrative" accounts.
Never had a problem running this way.