It's also the default policy of my work, a university. Staff do have local administrator access to their machines, but are not supposed to use it for regular operations for safety.
It's also the default policy of my work, a university. Staff do have local administrator access to their machines, but are not supposed to use it for regular operations for safety.
Once the software is installed, I can use it from my regular account.
> Staff do have local administrator access to their machines, but are not supposed to use it for regular operations for safety.
The point of this exercise is that installing random software from the Internet shouldn't be a regular operation; users should take extra care when doing it.
So...elevate permissions when you need to perform this new administrative task? I don't see how that changes the crux of the matter (you still are the de facto admin, even though you've applied artificial constraints to yourself, because you hold the admin credentials).
Do you use macOS?
> Do you use macOS?
Almost exclusively.