From: Richard Letts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Paul Farber wrote:
:
: > You SHOULD have to type into a special "admin" account to install/remove
a
: > program. Single user or not. You cannot make it any "righter" by
saying
: > a single user is only hurting himself. It's just a bad policy/secruity
: > measure to alway log in as root, but MS seems not to care, let the user,
: > or IS or tech support figure out what go changed.
:
: funnily enough I have to login on my windowsNT machine as 'administrator'
: to install/remove a program. when I login as ais007 I can't ...
:
: > Windows already supports user profiles, why not extend that into a super
: > user that you must change to to modify the system?
: it does
It does, IF you have set up NT properly. If your system partition is on a
FAT drive, for instance, you have NO file security in NT. Same if you have
converted your FAT partition to NTFS. (system file security is not set at
this time). Also, as long as a program doesn't try to modify something
besides HKEY_CURRENT_USER or write somewhere it's not allowed to, then WinNT
has no problem installing it.
--Adam
