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Do Your Developers Have Local Admin Rights?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that's-why-god-invented-sandboxes dept.

plover writes "I work as a developer for a Very Large American Corporation. We are not an IT company, but have a large IT organization that does a lot of internal development. In my area, we do Windows development, which includes writing and maintaining code for various services and executables. A few years ago the Info Security group removed local administrator rights from most accounts and machines, but our area was granted exceptions for developers. My question is: do other developers in other large companies have local admin rights to their development environment? If not, how do you handle tasks like debugging, testing installations, or installing updated development tools that aren't a part of the standard corporate workstation?"

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  1. Yeah. by qoncept · · Score: 5, Insightful

    At my last 2 jobs developers have had security exceptions for local admin rights. The combination of money lost due to wasted time otherwise plus the fact that developers are going to cause less harm than average users is apparently enough to persuade even management.

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  2. What it REALLY comes down to by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Here's the thing... Why the **** does windows program installation basically require files be installed any place other than locally. That's the entire problem. The entire design of windows is to install **** under system32 or program files when it doesn't need to be there. I remember the old days when programs ran under one directory. Easy to maintain. You know where everything is. To uninstall is simply to delete. Don't get me started on the registry. REALLY? You're telling me it's "faster" than reading a text file config. Hardly. ARE YOU HEARING ME MICROSOFT? Why the **** do you even need admin rights? YOU DON"T!!!

  3. Re:What? by Javagator · · Score: 5, Insightful
    as an admin, I prefer to maintain control of what is installed on the systems

    That's the way it always is. The admins want to limit control to make their jobs easier, and the developers want full control to make their jobs easier, and never the twain shall meet.