On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Dustin Puryear spewed into the ether: <snip> > > Good separation of capabilities. You are not always root. > > Certainly you are not implying that Linux compartmentalizes user > priviledges better than NT? And no, I am not including other UNIX No, I am not. NT has a good ACL model (Linux has capabilities), but the NT model is not implemented well. Also, it is easier to understand the Linux implementation as compared to the NT implementation. The biggest problem with NT is the defaults, and the lack of remote administration facilities (partially fixed in Win2K, which is becoming more unix like :) ). > systems that have the similar capabilities for segmenting access to > different user subsets as does NT. This is very much a Linux issue. <g> See se-linux. > Of course, sudo changes things considerably, but I'm speaking merely on > principle of the core OS design. Agreed Devdas Bhagat
