Mac Geekery

If someone switches their admin account to a non-admin (presumably after creating a new admin account) they will have a lot of folders and files that are still owned by them in places like /Library and /Applications. This could still compromise security. Unfortunately, I haven’t found a good GUI mechanism to fix this problem. It is easy from the command line

sudo chown -R root:root /Applications

With all the applications out there it is hard to be sure that this won’t cause some issues. But I’ve done this before and never had trouble.