Re: Raw Sockets in WinXP

From: Paul Cardon (paul@moquijo.com)
Date: 07/31/01 

Message-ID: <3B662523.E271DD0@moquijo.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 23:25:23 -0400
From: Paul Cardon <paul@moquijo.com>
To: Su Wadlow <swadlow@utdallas.edu>
Subject: Re: Raw Sockets in WinXP

Su Wadlow wrote:
>
> Probably a lot of them. Many will be like you were at first
> with Linux, but many more will simply get frustrated when they
> can't get an application installed, or a particular feature
> won't work correctly unless they're an administrator. And it's
> much easier to just log in as Administrator than it is to learn
> about adding users, and putting those users in appropriate
> groups.
>
> What's really scary about this scenario is that most XP users
> will be "consumers" -- home users without the expertise to
> figure out how to use normal user accounts effectively, without
> the inclination to learn, and without a support system. The
> boxen quite likely will be just as wide open as Win95 was, and
> the security that is gained by using an NT-like system may well
> be negated by the user being unable to use the security
> functionality effectively.

Bingo. It is difficult even for those with experience to get much of
the current consumer software to work correctly on a multi-user system
as a non-privileged user. Software developers rarely test in that
environment. Uggh.

-paul

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