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Do Your Developers Have Local Admin Rights?
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?"
The fact that Windows systems require programmers to need admin rights is utterly broken. It's the cause for so many non multiuser capable programs still being made.
Other than making developers less productive, but hey it's not like they matter at all so its ok, right?
I won't argue my point I think its pretty clear. I'm a developer and I wouldn't work on a machine where I didn't have admin rights, unless there were a really good reason to do so.