Re: Need help w/BootX icon

Jolly Roger <jollyroger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> While nothing about this is mentioned in the manual that comes with your
> Mac, Apple does recommend not running as administrator in the Mac OS X
> security guidelines published on their web site:
> 
> <http://www.apple.com/sup****t/security/guides/>
> 
> See page 24 of the Mac OS X v10.4 (Tiger) Security Configuration Guide,
> for example.

Right, so the point is that only someone who goes out of the way to find
this information is even aware of it. It's not aimed at the typical
user. To the contrary, Apple states:

"To use these guides, you should be an experienced Mac OS X user, be
familiar with the Mac OS X user interface, and have at least some
experience using the Terminal application's command-line interface. You
should also be familiar with basic networking concepts.

"Certain instructions in the guides are complex, and deviation could
result in serious adverse effects on the computer and its security. The
guides should only be used by experienced Mac OS X users, and any
changes made to your settings should be thoroughly tested."

If the typical user even stumbles upon this, this passage is likely to
send him away. Now, let me be clear that I have no issue with people
recommending things from the guide here, but I do have an issue with
making people think they aren't running their Macs properly by using
them exactly as Apple lead them to by following the setup procedure that
guides them when they take the computer out of the box and turn it on.

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