On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Ted Roche <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Paul Hill <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Security Windows has been as good as Linux/Unix since Windows NT (the >> creators of NT were the VMS guys). In some ways it's better (more >> fine grained). > > Really? I'm quite surprised someone would suggest that. What do you > base that on?
e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_nt "NT supported per-object (file, function, and role) access control lists allowing a rich set of security permissions to be applied to systems and services." Basically Windows security is more fine-grained than the traditional Unix model (user, group, world) in that you can have much more control over what a user can do to a folder/file, though there is a POSIX ACL api (don't know much about that). But as I said, great security is useless if the default install gives you admin rights... -- Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
