I don't disagree with anything you said. The OP said that not making the user run with elevated permissions has been a historical advantage of *nix over Windows, and you countered that Windows had the same model as of NT. I am simply saying that I don't believe that is an accurate comparison.
________________________________ From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 11:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix User vs Administrator privileges are only one small part of a security model. In fact, Windows has many individual security rights, so "user" versus "administrator" is a somewhat pointless comparison. How do you ACL files, ports, threads, memory? How do processes protect themselves from other processes? The typical NTFS file ACLs are far more granular than typical *Nix permissions. And that's just the DACLs, not including the SACLs. Cheers Ken From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 2010 11:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix Therefore, I don't think you can realistically compare the security model of *nix to NT. Bill Mayo ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
