RE: Administrator Accounts

["Willy, Andrew" <AWilly () esmil net>]

Mostly true.  Some organizations use web-based applications that require
installed controls.  If you have several hundred users, and you upgrade the
app, it is nice that your admins don't have to hit every workstation.  

In such a situation a user whose browser trusts the web app server and is a
local admin, client upgrades are transparent.  When they aren't a local
admin, it is the utter opposite. 

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Seltzer [mailto:larry () larryseltzer com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 1:29 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: RE: [funsec] Administrator Accounts


And users can't install software as a standard user, but so what. They
shouldn't
be installing software on company PCs.

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