On Nov 14, 2002 at 07:55, Bhargav Bhatt wrote:
machines. On the contrary, there are some professor's who use Linux/Solaris
^*BLAM*
One may argue that similar problems would follow if a person worked regularly wth admin priviledges on a *NIX box. However, most *NIX systems make it point
Which is why it is said that being root all the time is not good. When people ask me why, the security reason is what I give. They say they don't care. *shrug*, they won't get user accounts on my system, then.
People are used to the Windows way; I think the person I was talking to actually said that. Windows allows the user to be root all the time.
does give an option to make extra user accounts during install. However, the default boot screen always has the admin name selected, which IMO, defeats
You can turn that off. But you need to figure out that you should turn that off, and where.
the purpose. IMO, WIndows should make it a point to convince the users, during the splash screens while the install is going on, that it is
Nobody watches those, including me.
I might also add that its a pain in the rear to find out stuff in Registry. While its quite easy, for me, to locate a setting in /etc, i dont find it quite as easy to find something in the registry.. But thats only me.!
I guess it's because of the key-value nested nature.
Add to the above, all the security vulnerabilities discovered in Windows on a daily(sometimes hourly) basis, and u get higly insecure, but very user
BTW, bind has been 0wned again. And there are trojans of tcpdump and libpcap floating around.
(Professor here, who no one would suspect of being that savvy, actually used that word in class. I'm not sure if he realised what he was doing, either he just used it out of habit or he was actually trying to connect with the true hackers. I'm not saying he does not know what it means. I'm sure he does. But I don't know if he knew he was using it.)