Dave Watts wrote: >> Another aspect of this is that in Windows it's notoriously >> difficult to run as anything other than an Administrator and >> have anything work. In Linux/UNIX, operating as root is seldom >> necessary. > > This isn't really accurate. It's quite easy to run almost all services > (outside of the OS's own services) using non-privileged accounts.
Anything that uses Windows Authentication requires additional privileges to impersonate users. Like IIS: it may change its credentials to some other user, but the initial parsing of the request line is done under highly privileged account. > Just > because this doesn't happen by default doesn't mean it's difficult. With well designed services, it does happen by default. Point in case: PostgreSQL will refuse to start under a privileged account. You need to rip out pieces of sourcecode and compile your own version before that is going to work. > It's a > bit more difficult to run user applications without administrative rights, > because most users are not familiar with system administration. But even > that is doable - I'm typing this from my laptop, using a non-privileged > account, just like I do every day. I'm currently typing from my Linux desktop :) but I don't usually log on as Administrator on my Windows laptop either. > In fact, it's not generally harder than > Unix. I have to disagree with you there. When I do something on Windows that needs extra privileges it throws an error. When I do something on Linux that needs extra privileges it asks for the password. And that difference is enough for for instance my parents to give up on trying to run Windows unprivileged and turn back to an administrator account. Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:240026 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
