Re: Administrator Accounts

[Vicky Røde <aptgetd () gmail com>]

Larry Seltzer wrote:
> I just got off a press call with Microsoft about the "Enterprise CTP"
> release of Windows Vista, basically a new beta (they don't want to use the
> word beta) oriented at enterprises.
>
> One of the things that Brad Something, Lord High Product Manager for Windows
> Vista said was that 80% of Windows enterprise users run as administrator. He
> said this as a way of pitching the new User Account Control (UAC) feature
> (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/library/0d75f774-8514-4c9e-ac
> 08-4c21f5c6c2d9.mspx) which is certainly a cool and useful feature. I'm sure
> I didn't misunderstand him.
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According to uac's own blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/uac/), users will run
as a standard user even administrators. vista will be implementing
something similar to sudo to which i say, about time.



regards,
/virendra

> I would assume that all, or nearly all enterprise Windows users are logging
> into a domain. This means that their rights are controlled through domain
> administration, and making the average user an administrator would be an
> insane thing to do. 
>
> It also appears to me that UAC is a matter for local accounts, not domain
> accounts. So Vista, being a client OS, really can't address the problem.
>
> 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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