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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. 'bout friggin time! by Foofoobar · · Score: -1, Troll

    Geezo! How many features from NIX systems are they going to integrate into their new OS? Why don't they just release their own Linux distro and face facts.

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  2. didn't bill say by myukew · · Score: 1, Troll

    "here at microsoft we invent things. Linux is still in the process of copying"

    So now who copys what?

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    1. Re:didn't bill say by Swamii · · Score: -1, Troll

      You're basing your opinion of Microsoft on a news headline from Slashdot, an anti-Microsoft website. Unbelievable.

      The original article mentions nothing about this being similar to Unix permissions; only a single quote saying "In Unix, people ask 'will this run under non-root'?". This "copy of Unix" idea is nothing more than an editorializing tactic by people who happen to hate Microsoft so much that they will criticize the company for everything from writing anti-child porn software, or for donating money to stop AIDS, or donating computers to schools.

      This so-called tech community is truely blinded by an obsessive hatred of everything Microsoft, anything remotely religious, and anything that isn't GPL. This used to be a great technical oriented community, but its now become nothing more than a "we hate Microsoft, we hate Bush, we hate yahda yahda" fan club.

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  3. Re:Finally... by BoomerSooner · · Score: 1, Troll

    Proxy the internet and allow only approved sites. All businesses should do this to assist in keeping employee productivity higher.

  4. FailzorS.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    platfOrm lfor the

  5. Re:Home by freak4u · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.