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On our campus, almost no one gets administrative privileges.   I have the local admin privileges because our ILS (Sirsi) requires at least Power User status to run the client.  IT got tired of having me ask them to come down and put this staff person as a power user on this machine.

I'm very careful not to overstep my authority.  It's for getting machines to work and play well with our SIRSI client, not for downloading and adding shareware or anything else.



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Sue
Susan M. Lee MLS
Information Services Librarian
University of Great Falls Library
1301 20th St South
Great Falls, MT 59405

406-791-5318
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From: Library NT [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Heckbert Jr, Richard W. [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 12:48 PM
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Subject: [LIBNT-L] Staff desktop account security

Once again I turn to this list for its collective wisdom.

The university was recently the target of an orchestrated attack on desktop machines that took us quite a while to clean up.  Add to that the recent changes in MA laws regarding personal information and we are at a point where we need to change the way we have done things.  In the past, we’ve allowed people to run as administrators on their own machines.  Mostly to facilitate software installs and program functionality.  We are now trying to change user’s accounts to regular accounts and not have everyone run as administrators but surprisingly and I guess not surprisingly we are getting push back from some of the upper staff here.  Does anyone have any documented best practices where they do not allow people to run as administrators on their own machines?  If not, what is everyone doing as far as account privilege levels on staff machines.  Do you run as regular users or do you allow them to run as administrators?

Thanks!

Rick Heckbert
Library Systems Adminsitrator
Tisch Library
35 Professors Row
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155