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Re: [News] User Privileges in Windows: Does it Exist?

On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:26:55 +0000
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The Truth About User Privileges
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Has the time finally come for the least-privilege user -- you know,
> | setting your Windows client machines to run without system
> | administrator rights?
> | 
> | [...]
> | 
> | Today, some Windows applications just won't run properly on a
> | desktop without administrative rights. "It's a dirty little
> | secret people sweep under the rug because they're not able to
> | do much about the problem. A lot of applications and pieces
> | of environments won't work if users aren't given admin rights,"
> | says Steve Kleynhans, vice president for Gartner's client
> | platforms group. "If you can get applications to function
> | with lower rights, in a lot of cases it hampers the user
> | experience."
> `----
> 
> http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=110225&WT.svl=news1_1
> 
> $ sudo apt-get linux
> $ chown $USER linux
> 
> In Windows it's:
> 
> $ apt-get linux
> bash: premission denied
> $ chown Windows $USER

in america user owns linux, in soviet russia windows owns user.

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Regards, Ed                      :: http://s5h.net/qf
proud bash hacker
When Vin Diesel turned 10, he was caught masturbating to a phone 
book... he told his mother "the number 9 is the weirdest looking 
number ever..." 

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