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Originally Posted by
wisecracker
I run all my machines as a non-admin user so therefore I should be relatively safe. I re-boot to go into admin user mode instead of logging out from non-admin and logging back in to admin mode.
Actually, even as a non-admin users, you can open a terminal and su to root.
Also, I also run macOS as a non-admin user; but when you install a new upgrade, etc the system will ask for your admin passwd.
Basically, everyone should have a root password on macOS even though they do not run as admin. If all users set a root password, then the update would not have been necessary, according to what I read when I dug into the details. The issue, or so it seems, is that many or many most macOS users seem to rarely work on the console and do all their work via the Mac GUI.