Remote sharing options turning on automatically
In Mac OS Sonoma under System settings / General / Sharing, there are three advanced sharing options: remote management, remote login and remote application scripting.
I'm the only person that uses my MacBook Pro 2018, and it's not part of a school or organization. It's a private Mac for personal usage. I'm the only user and the only administrator. I only ever log into my Mac directly from my Mac; I never log into it or access it remotely.
The default setting is to allow administrators remote to have remote access for all three of the advanced sharing options. But since I don't need or want remote access, I deleted the administrators remote access. But somehow the computer keeps reinstating the remote access for administrators all by itself. Why would it be doing that? And if the computer needs administrators to have remote access - which I don't understand because I'm the administrator and I don't need it - why permit a setting which purportedly deactivates remote access for administrators but then reinstates it without my involvement? This implies there is another administrator or that the computer overrides the setting the administrator chose, in which case why offer the setting. That's so illogical I can't imagine that the Apple engineers decided to include it, which makes me think it's a malicious actor.
Put differently, why allow a user to turn off access if it's going to be turned back on automatically by the system? It's just confusing / misleading. If it's not necessarily going to be turned back on automatically, then why does it happen on my computer? How do I know it's not someone else accessing my computer remotely masquerading as an administrator?
I've attached screenshots of the dialog box with administrators having access - the default option and the option the computer self-reverts to - and with administrators removed - the option I set it to because I don't need it.
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 14.1