Guest /u/l008com Posted August 28, 2024 Posted August 28, 2024 This is all hypothetical, but I may be getting a job doing some photo and video work, and if I do I'm going to insist on using a Mac in an all PC environment. I assume they're just going to let me do whatever I want with it since their tech person will want nothing to do with it, and since I know what I'm doing. (and also I worked at this company 25 years ago and have good rapport with everyone who's left) I know the general rule (rule for users, not a policy with the company) is, don't put personal info on a computer that belongs to your work. But that's not going to cut it, I'm not going to be able to function without access to all of my many email accounts, my iMessages, VPN access to my home machines, etc etc. But I fully agree that simply adding all those accounts to the work computer is out of the question. I need to be able to get fired on my day off and know that all of my personal info is perfectly safe. My first thought was to just set up an admin account (unused), a generic account so someone else can use the machine and do work on it when I'm not there, and my own account with all my files in it. But unlike old school filevault, the new filevault has a bit of a "design flaw", in that admins can access other users files. Something not possible when each user had their own encrypted disk image. So where does that leave me? The only other idea I could come up with is running VMWare and running a whole second copy of the OS in it. This will likely be a 24 GB Mac mini with two displays, so it should run two copies of Mac OS like a champ. If I encrypt the virtual OS and always shut it down, then my personal files should be completely inaccessible to anyone but me. HOWEVER the one flaw with this plan is that when you quit VMware, it 'freezes' your virtual guest, it doesn't shut it down or even put it to sleep. However I don't want to have the virtual OS auto-screen lock, I want it to be wide open until I log out of the main account on the primary machine's OS. If there was someway to make quitting VMware put all virtual machines to sleep, THEN freeze them, that would work well. But there doesn't seem to be any feature like that. Are there any other options I'm overlooking? Options OTHER than run a separate, personal computer on my desk. OR connecting to a home computer through screen sharing. It needs to be real (virtual counts as real) local on this work machine. submitted by /u/l008com [link] [comments]
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