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Longhorn to use UNIX-like User Permissions

Posted by Zonk on from the making-their-own-osx dept.

destuxor writes "After years of Windows users abusing administrative accounts out of necessity, Microsoft promises that Longhorn will make better use of user permissions in what sounds exactly like what UNIX/Linux users have been doing for years. Hopefully this will fix the long list of applcations that cannot be run by a Least-Privilege User Account (LUA) while giving a much-needed security boost. Too bad "MS-root" can't watch over your grandmother when she opens emails."

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  1. Apple was there first by Eradicator2k3 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Microsoft promises that Longhorn will make better use of user permissions in what sounds exactly like what UNIX/Linux users have been doing for years."

    You misspelled Macintosh. As any Mac user could tell you, ALL innovations were originated by Apple. Since Mac users hate the fact that anything was originally developed by anyone other than Apple, I will now use their bizarro logic to make my case.

    1 - BSD was derived from AT&T's Unix. The settlement prevents BSD from legally being called "Unix"
    2 - AT&T's Unix predates Linux.
    3 - Apple's OS X uses BSD.

    There you have it. I don't think I can get any clearer than that.

    --
    Mr. T pitied this fool on 27 July 1992.
  2. Re:didn't bill say by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I love when Lunix users think they have some bleeding edge security model when in reality they are not only light years behind Windows ACLS (which can be fine tuned to a *much* higher degree than anything Linix has to offer), but also years behind the various BSDS (and therefore OSX). You Lunux users have it worst of anyone, yet you think it's the best.

  3. Re:This is assuming wild exploits attack deep free by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Shouldn't you be stalking people as AC?