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Longhorn to use UNIX-like User Permissions
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."
"here at microsoft we invent things. Linux is still in the process of copying"
So now who copys what?
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Did you read the link? And yes, it is harder to muck up a NIX system. I execute some dumb command (if I'm allowed) on my nix box, my home directory gets torched. My fault, my problem. I open a stupid email attatchment on a windows box, it brings down the entire system. Also, on NIX, you first have to give that downloaded attatchment execute privs. If you also look further in the article, the author mentions that microsoft does not reference that VMS and NT come fromt the same roots. Where do they say 'Based on VMS' or 'Written by the same group as VMS'? No, they called it NT for New Technology. Doesn't sound like it came from anywhere with that name.