Re: How effective is a router as a firewall?
From: Leythos (void_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 10/25/03
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Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 19:18:30 GMT
In article <bne6ma$e6v$1@news.shlink.de>, wolfgang@shconnect.de says...
> Duane Arnold wrote:
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> > Using the Admin account is only bad if the machine is compromised, [...]
>
> Wrong. Already the name tells you that. The account is called adminisitrator
> because it is necessaey for adminstrative tasks, and *nothing* else.
>
> Normal use of a computer must never take place using a privileged account.
>
> Wolfgang
In many cases, while not administering the computer, you need to be a
member of the Administrators Group.
When you are doing development work using many tools, you can not just
be a member of the Domain Users group, even "Power Users" groups doesn't
always have enough rights.
In a domain model, the workstation local admins group often contains the
Domain Users group - this allows users at those workstations to install
software and such. While not an ideal idea, it is done all over the
world.
The idea that you should never run under and Administrators Group
account is very sound, but it's very hard to do in development
environments and in environments for home use where the users have very
little computer savvy. In most cases, even if you show them how to
switch they will just stick with the EASY account.
This is one of the reasons for all the other layers of security.
On my unix machines I almost never run with the root account, but on my
Windows machines I almost always run as a local admin (not necessarily a
domain admin account).
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