Re: OS X Leopard and Office 2004 Student Ed

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On Jan 3, 2:57 pm, Elliott Roper <nos...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article
<7809c7a9-f1f5-412c-ba4f-d69fea0df...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,

<"gav....@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx"> wrote:
I looked at the Advanced Settings for the accounts and found that my
original account has User ID 501 and Group ID 501... Where as the new
accound has User ID 502 and Group ID 20.

Quote: "You can see this in Finder's "more info". Some files will
show
sharing and permissions for "(unknown)"."

That bit will need more explaining in order for me to find out the
information as I'm not sure where to find it!

Select a file in Finder. Hit cmd-I. Turn down the 'more info' triangle.

All it does is demonstrate that groups get pooched on Tiger -> Leopard
upgrades.

Your old and new user IDs show that you are running as an Admin user
(501 is the first UID assigned at install time, by default an Admin
user.) This is a very bad idea from a security PoV.

In your shoes, I'd migrate my everyday use to the new 502 account,
making sure it is a 'standard' account. It will cause you an extra
password typing whenever you install new software and such, but if you
ever do something stupid like get trojanned, then the malware cannot
reach out to break your system or the files of other users.

Like I wrote earlier. It is a long and scary process changing the group
IDs of everything, without any guarantee that you will find them all,
or even if it will fix your problem. You already know that the new
account works. It is time to get pragmatic. And more secure.

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Brilliant thank you very much
Is it worth me deleting the original account or just running the two?
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