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Re: Administrator Accounts
From: James Kehl <shykta () dione ids pl>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:26:55 +0100 (CET)
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Nick FitzGerald wrote:
Vicky Røde wrote:According to uac's own blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/uac/), users will run as a standard user even administrators. vista will be implementing something similar to sudo to which i say, about time.So the security model of Vista is designed to deliberately (and irreversably??) break all those "mission critical" apps written way back before any cared that much about security (because they hadn't heard about that "Internet thing" yet) and all those more recent apps written by a pack of gibbons that (read my recent post in this thread for the rest...)??
Deliberate backwards-incompatibility wouldn't really surprise me. After all, there's a business case there - more than can be said for some of their latest ideas. For instance, check out the Win64 file system redirector - needed because somehow System32 is now the province of 64-bit DLLs. Funny, I would have thought those would really suit a System64 directory... http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/win64/win64/file_system_redirector.asp (Sounds like Win64's got a built-in rootkit! 32-bit virus scanners? Why on earth would they want to see the filesystem as it really is?) [Whups, sorry for OT-ness!] James _______________________________________________ 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, (continued)
- Re: Administrator Accounts Matthew Murphy (Feb 22)
- RE: Administrator Accounts Larry Seltzer (Feb 22)
- Re: Administrator Accounts Blue Boar (Feb 22)
- RE: Administrator Accounts Larry Seltzer (Feb 22)
- Re: Administrator Accounts Blue Boar (Feb 22)
- RE: Administrator Accounts Larry Seltzer (Feb 22)
- Re: Administrator Accounts Nick FitzGerald (Feb 22)
- Re: Administrator Accounts Vicky Røde (Feb 22)
- Re: Administrator Accounts Nick FitzGerald (Feb 22)
- Re: Administrator Accounts Matthew Murphy (Feb 22)
- Re: Administrator Accounts James Kehl (Feb 23)
- Re: Administrator Accounts Matthew Murphy (Feb 23)
- Re: Administrator Accounts Blue Boar (Feb 23)
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