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Re: local SYSTEM on Windows vs. local root on Unix

From: K_aneda <kaneda () magi net au>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 12:26:22 +1100

On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 08:20, KF wrote:

I am currious to know what you folks think the differences are between 
obtaining local SYSTEM on a win32 box and obtaining root on a Unix machine.

Same thing?
Different?
One is worse than the other? Which one? Why?


Same thing - both LocalSystem and root(uid=0) have complete control over
the system.

Though it could be said that's it harder to get root on most *nix
machines than it is to get LocalSystem on a Windows machine..

-- 
 - K_aneda

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local SYSTEM on Windows vs. local root on Unix KF (Jan 19)
- Re: local SYSTEM on Windows vs. local root on Unix petard (Jan 20)
  - Re: local SYSTEM on Windows vs. local root on Unix S G Masood (Jan 20)
- Re: local SYSTEM on Windows vs. local root on Unix Erik van Straten (Jan 20)
- Re: local SYSTEM on Windows vs. local root on Unix K_aneda (Jan 20)
  - RE: local SYSTEM on Windows vs. local root onUnix joe (Jan 20)
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