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Sophos makes me log into the Admin profile to scan entire drive

Macfan

I am both the Admin and seperate user (under different profile) on my mac mini.  I tried to scan the local drive logged in as a user.  Sophos said that I had to log in as the Admin to scan the entire drive.  I don't have a problem with requiring Admin authorisation but why not ask for Admin authorisation right then and their so I don't have to log out and then re-log in as Admin.  Other programs allow this all the time.  Would make the experience more streamlined and easier.

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    This is likely a security issue, as the local scan is long-running and is being granted administrator access from userspace.

    A simple workaround is to create a custom scan of the local drives; that appears to work from a standard account.

    Funny; I don't recall seeing that message before; I'm pretty sure it used to let you scan as current user or authenticate as an administrator.

    As another workaround, you cal follow this hint for running software as another user.  Note the security warnings this article highlights... these are the reasons we don't just let you authenticate as admin.

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    This is likely a security issue, as the local scan is long-running and is being granted administrator access from userspace.

    A simple workaround is to create a custom scan of the local drives; that appears to work from a standard account.

    Funny; I don't recall seeing that message before; I'm pretty sure it used to let you scan as current user or authenticate as an administrator.

    As another workaround, you cal follow this hint for running software as another user.  Note the security warnings this article highlights... these are the reasons we don't just let you authenticate as admin.

    :1004571
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