On Thursday 07 September 2006 02:39, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 19:49 -0500, Michael Yep wrote: > > Users should run as restricted users > > When I was running Window NT, I did that, and it > worked great, but when I "upgraded" to XP I found > it was totally impossible to do anything and eventually > gave up trying and just made my "normal" user > an administrator. > Agreed - W2K allowed other, more configurable statuses with limited rights. > A lot like trying to do anything useful > with selinux cranked all the way up :-). I advised my family to buy XP Pro rather than Home, thinking this would make the difference, but it doesn't. There's still only User, totally locked-down, and Administrator, totally open. I've been told that it's possible to force XP to allow limited rights as in W2K, but no-one has told me how to do it, and I haven't discovered it. Anne
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