Re: Administrator Accounts

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

Todd Towles wrote:
>  
> Ryan wrote:
> > I like the way the Mac does it, makes you quite comfortable as a
> >   regular user, and prompt for the password when you need to 
> > do something that takes privs.
>
> You mean, the way Linux/UNIX does it? ;)

I disagree.  I think the Mac goes one better, and includes specific 
support for this, complains at you when you violate it, and makes you do 
a bit of hunting even to turn the root account on for actual use.

*nix makes it easy at the command-line, with sudo, etc... but I can't 
recall there being good GUI support.  I.e. I log in as luser, and will 
the various X bits do the auto-prompting like the Mac?

To be completely fair, I spend very little time in a GUI on unix, so I 
probably wouldn't know.  I have Windows (and a little Mac, lately) for 
GUIs. :)

                                        BB
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