RE: Administrator Accounts

["Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com>]

My friend Susan Bradley said it in 2005 -

 "We need to understand that we need to protect ourselves a little bit
better. At the same time, the vendors need to step up to the plate.
Intuit, in particular, and other vendors that do not support limited
user rights are forcing me to make security decisions. They are the ones
causing insecurity on the desktop, not me."

But not all applications will run if the user does not have
administrative privileges, Bradley said.

"The ultimate goal is that every single application that we have
installed in our systems will run in user modes," Bradley said. "The
Microsoft applications do run in user mode. I cannot say that for the
rest of my stupid line-of-business applications. To get certified for
design for a Windows XP logo, you have to run as a user mode."

http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid1_gci10507
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org 
> [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Larry Seltzer
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 2:04 PM
> To: 'Blue Boar'
> Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: RE: [funsec] Administrator Accounts
>
> > > I like the way the Mac does it, makes you quite comfortable as a
> > >  regular user, and prompt for the password when you need to do 
> > > something
> that takes privs. 
>
> This is what Vista does. 
>
> Larry Seltzer
> eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
> http://security.eweek.com/
> http://blog.ziffdavis.com/seltzer
> Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
> larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 
>
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