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I started doing development under a separate non-admin user on my MacBook. I switch to another user for personal stuff, or the admin user to install stuff with
by cedws 2y ago
I started doing development under a separate non-admin user on my MacBook. I switch to another user for personal stuff, or the admin user to install stuff with Homebrew. Doesn't protect from zero days but it's better than nothing.
- 3eb7988a1663 2y agoI toyed around with this a bit, and it feels like it has significant merit. User separation is about the only security boundary built into Linux from the beginning. I was not totally happy with the workflow I adopted, but it is probably going to be less burdensome than the VM approach.
- cedws 2y agoWith Fast User Switching on macOS it's pretty convenient too. The difficulty is remembering to switch user when changing contexts. I tried to set a different wallpaper/icon for each user to make it more obvious which user I'm on, but macOS just resets them all to be the same.