There are several administrator accounts

Dear all,

I right click to check the file. Interestingly, I've seen three accounts that can reach the file under Sharing&Permissions: mine, and two others. They are at "read only" conditions. I checked my accounts. I have only one administrator account.

I 'm wondering what is this means. Someone has acmes to my Mac?

regards

murat

MacBook Air 13", 10.14

Posted on Jan 28, 2019 3:59 AM

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dialabrain

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Jan 28, 2019 4:09 AM in response to mguness4525

That's perfectly normal. FWIW, wheel and everyone are not admin accounts.

dialabrain

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Jan 28, 2019 5:13 AM in response to mguness4525

"wheel" is one of the system groups from BSD. It's a normal part of the operating system.

dialabrain

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Jan 28, 2019 5:34 AM in response to mguness4525

You're welcome. If you want to read about "wheel": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_(computing)

mguness4525 Author

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Jan 28, 2019 4:04 AM in response to mguness4525

Sorry, I attached the screenshot here. Thanks

mguness4525 Author

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Jan 28, 2019 5:09 AM in response to dialabrain

what " wheel" ? could be?

mguness4525 Author

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Jan 28, 2019 5:32 AM in response to dialabrain

Thanks for the help.

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There are several administrator accounts