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RE: Administrator Accounts
From: "Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:16:57 -0500
No question the auto-prompting for admin credentials is important and Windows is years behind on this, but as long as the user really does have these credentials they are open to social engineering attack for it. A home user has to have their own admin credentials available, but in a properly-administered system I don't see why an enterprise user needs them, even on a notebook. Larry Seltzer eWEEK.com Security Center Editor http://security.eweek.com/ http://blog.ziffdavis.com/seltzer Contributing Editor, PC Magazine larryseltzer () ziffdavis com _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
Current thread:
- RE: Administrator Accounts Todd Towles (Feb 22)
- Re: Administrator Accounts Blue Boar (Feb 22)
- Re: Administrator Accounts Mike Owen (Feb 22)
- RE: Administrator Accounts Larry Seltzer (Feb 22)
- Re: Administrator Accounts Matthew Murphy (Feb 22)
- Re: Administrator Accounts Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 22)
- Re: Administrator Accounts Mike Owen (Feb 22)
- Re: Administrator Accounts Blue Boar (Feb 22)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Administrator Accounts Todd Towles (Feb 22)
- RE: Administrator Accounts Larry Seltzer (Feb 22)
- RE: Administrator Accounts Todd Towles (Feb 22)
- RE: Administrator Accounts Nick FitzGerald (Feb 22)
- Re: Administrator Accounts Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 22)
- RE: Administrator Accounts Larry Seltzer (Feb 23)
- Re: Administrator Accounts Dude VanWinkle (Feb 23)
- RE: Administrator Accounts Nick FitzGerald (Feb 22)
- Re: Administrator Accounts David Lodge (Feb 23)