Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse 11

James Knott wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Is there no way to add another user? I try to convince my friends to
create a user account, separate from the admin. It sounds like another
security bomb is about to go off.
I quote from a book I have on the XP:

QUOTE

Windows XP Home edition bestows Administrator rights on anyone who
logs into the computer, giving full control to all system resources -
this is not a satisfactory security model for business and power users.


UNQUOTE.

Answer your question? :-)


My question was about Vista.

Sorry, must have missed this along the way - didn't see any reference to Vista, the discussion I thought was all about XP.

My ThinkPad came with XP Home and I have
both Admin and user accounts on it. User accounts in XP Home do not
have admin rights. However, most people never get past that first
account, which does have admin rights.

A friend is using the Home edition and I haven't "played" with it (because I didn't want to get tangled up with Home edition :-) ) so cannot comment for or against that you have both Admin and user accounts on it. All I know is what I heard, and read (and quoted above) about the Home edition of XP.

Of course, it is in XP Professional that most people who use it at home who never get past the first account - the Administrator - and do not create a user with limited access rights.

The need to create a normal, limited access, user in XP Professional is not something which is enforced in Professional which is why, I understand, most XP Prof. setups are being run by a home user with full Admin. rights. I cannot see why the Home edition should be more security conscious than the Professional edition, and also cost much less, unless SP1 and SP2 introduced the ability to create limited-access users in the Home edition.

Ciao.



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