On Thursday 07 September 2006 02:39, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 19:49 -0500, Michael Yep wrote:
> Users should run as restricted users
When I was running Window NT, I did that, and it
worked great, but when I "upgraded" to XP I found
it was totally impossible to do anything and eventually
gave up trying and just made my "normal" user
an administrator.
Agreed - W2K allowed other, more configurable statuses with limited rights.
A lot like trying to do anything useful
with selinux cranked all the way up :-).
I advised my family to buy XP Pro rather than Home, thinking this would make
the difference, but it doesn't. There's still only User, totally
locked-down, and Administrator, totally open.
I've been told that it's possible to force XP to allow limited rights as in
W2K, but no-one has told me how to do it, and I haven't discovered it.
Anne