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Re: No session about Carbon in WWDC



On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:32 PM, George Warner wrote:
It was absolutely not design to be multi-user friendly.

If the (vast) majority of our machines run single-user is this relevant?

No modern Macintosh runs single-user. And for good reason.

While there may be a single human using the machine, there are any of a number of services on the system running as different virtual users for reasons of security and isolation.

Personally? I have two accounts on my machine. My main account; the one I live in all the time. It is a non-administrative account. Then there is an 'admin' account that I use to perform administrative tasks.

I like knowing that some random bit of software cannot go and destroy my system without me giving permission.

b.bum
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