Re: Linux - Poster child for security glitches

From: /dev/rob0 (rob0@gmx.co.uk)
Date: 11/24/02 

From: /dev/rob0 <rob0@gmx.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 15:51:50 -0800

In article <iORD9.6071$OZ4.627239@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>,
  Simon Cooke wrote:
>> totally defeating the purpose of privileges.) I guess now there is a
>> form of "su" for Windows, but it wasn't there when I used NT.
>
> Yes, there was. You just didn't look hard enough.

Interesting. And yet I felt I was pretty competent with NT. This seems
to suggest that some of their user-friendly (or admin-friendly anyway)
features may be deliberately hidden from users/admins.

IAC I am not going back to look now. :)

This will be EOT for me because I don't care for advocacy arguments. I
prefer to advocate by doing. Followup-to set to comp.os.linux.advocacy
(where I won't see it. :) 

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