On Thursday 07 September 2006 15:08, Aaron Konstam wrote: >On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 21:39 -0400, 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. >> >> A lot like trying to do anything useful >> with selinux cranked all the way up :-). > >That is not really true we have over 800 Win XP machines on our campus >where users can only run as non-administrators (not counting the 2000 >student computers) > >The only problem is that some software providers like Intuit will only >allow there programs be run as a privileged user. Intuit can be total jerks in that regard. >-- >Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
