On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Adam D. McKenna wrote:
> From: Richard Letts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> : > 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).
please! surely one would not run linux using UMSDOS if one were interested
in security?
I use a disk image built for use in a student lab on the NT machine in
my ofice at work. most unixes don't ship secure out of the box, why should
anything else?
> 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.
hey, I can install IRC into my filestore under a UNIX operating system as
long as it doesn't try to write somewhere it's not allowed to.
Richard
