On 4/20/06, William Case <billlinux@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi; > > On Thu, 2006-13-04 at 20:41 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > > I recently responded to a Windows user who thought it was a "Linux rule" > > that one not run routinely as root/Administrator. Not so. MS would love for > > Windows users to run without Administrator privilege, and for applications > > to work correctly in a LUA environment, but many Windows application > > writers have never encountered LUA principles and so continue to write as > > if their primary target is Win3.1 or 98, with only one privilege level. > > > What is a LUA environment? I think it would have been better to write out the acronym that almost no one has heard of or uses, but I gather from context that LUA refers to "Limited User Access" or "Limited User Authority" meaning, for Windows, non-Administrators. -- Chris "I trust the Democrats to take away my money, which I can afford. I trust the Republicans to take away my freedom, which I cannot."
