Re: Dvorak Online: Killing Linux?

From: Paul J Gans (gans_at_panix.com)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 03:02:32 +0000 (UTC)

Andrew <yogig.nospamm.nospam@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote:
>Millers wrote:
>> Andrew wrote:
>> > Why does everyone think all users of windows have root privileges?
>>
>>> Not all processes run under SYSTEM or NTAUTHORITY either, many run
>>> under the specific user's ACL's.
>>> Just because people logon to their admin acct, doesn't mean they
>>> shouldn't be configuring their machine differently. RTFM.
>>>
>>>
>>> That said, I am using SUSE soley at home now, except for on my laptop.
>>
>>
>> Well, sometimes you have to apparently. For instance, one of the
>> machines we have is running XP Home. (It's provided by the school
>> district so I'm stuck w/that OS). As a regular user I tried to install
>> MS Flight Simulator. No go, no surprise. Logged in as administrator,
>> and it installed. Logged out and tried to run it as a regular user.
>> Guess what? It wouldn't run! MS's own product on their own OS wouldn't
>> run unless it was as administrator. Go figure.
>>
>> I asked the MS shills at work and they said to make the regular user a
>> power user. Tried. Guess what? No power user in XP Home that I could
>> find! Go figure. So guess what box runs w/admin privs. Guess what box
>> doesn't have an inet connection...
>>
>> ...Kevin

>See that's what 'Run As' is for.
>You are still logged into your user acct. It is just like 'su' in linux.

What happened to the click on the icon idea behind Windows?

   ---- Paul J. Gans

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