On Thursday 04 November 2004 3:39 pm, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 01:18:29PM -0800, Ken Barber wrote: > > On Thursday 04 November 2004 12:29 pm, perdurabo wrote: > > > On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 08:39:35 -0800, Russ Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > One of the fundamental flaws with Windows is that most of the time, > > > > any user logged on has administrator privileges. > > > > > > That's not a flaw in Windows. That's a flaw in the system > > > administrator, > > > > It's a flaw in Windows. Trying to pass the buck to system administrators > > is -- well, passing the buck.
> what about linux distros that ship with all sorts of stuff on by default? Yes, like Lindows, or whatever it's called now. They've taken a lot of criticism (well-deserved, IMO) for their the-default-user-is-root configuration. Their goal was a distro that would look and feel "just like Windows" so it would be easy to use. Well, they achieved it, I guess -- they're a little too much "just like Windows" for my tastes! > > and people deride OpenBSD because they claim that there are no holes > in a default install ... to a degree because hardly anything is enabled > by default. Yep, that's one of the beauties of OBSD. By design, everything is the administrator's responsibilty because s/he has to turn it on before it will work. Now, there is a distro that is clueful about security. Ken _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
