[no subject]

That is incorrect.  There is nothing root or Administrator specific that
enables the spreading of vulnerabilities.  Can root priviledges help?
sure.  Are they necessary? no. 

> It's not
> data that people are after, it's the machine itself.  Be it for
> processing power, storage, whatever, in the world of the personal user,
> it's not the data that matters.

That's not necessarily universal either.  It depends on the data and the
computer itself.  A computer on a dial-up modem is more value for it's
data.  A laptop in suspend mode is more valuable for it's hardware. ;-)

> 
> In the world of corporations, it's data that they want, and yet they
> still get to it, many times, because of something they knew that the SA
> didn't.
> 
> XP machines should have users, but again, the current releases of
> Windows are broken enough that you can do *NOTHING* as a user, not even
> install a program in your own home directory in your profile, as you can
> in the UNIX world, provided that you get a static binary or a C
> compiler, and your /home partition is not noexec.

Show me a CompUSA, BestBuy, etc user that can understand that, yet alone
do it.   --- 1001 points now. ;-)

> 
> I've heard that Microsoft is claiming to follow a more Unix-like
> permissions strategy, however, I've not verified the authenticity of
> that information myself yet, so I consider it to be a rumor.  However, I
> think it could be useful.

Currently XP and Win2K have a much more powerful user permissions
strategy.  If anything UNIX could gain from Windows in this area.  How
many users or groups can you give access to your /etc/clearcase
directory?  What if you already have NIS+ groups for devel, users and
admins and you don't want to re-create another group with all those
users in it?  ;-) 

-Jim P.


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