Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3031 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 08 February 2008 05:50:33 pm Basil Chupin wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
> > Basil Chupin wrote:
....
> > > If you are using the Home Edition you have no other choice except to
> > > run it with Administrator rights.
> >
> > Is there no way to add another user?  I try to convince my friends to
> > create a user account, separate from the admin.  It sounds like another
> > security bomb is about to go off.
>
> I quote from a book I have on the XP:
>
> QUOTE
>
> Windows XP Home edition bestows Administrator rights on anyone who logs
> into the computer, giving full control to all system resources - this is
> not a satisfactory security model for business and power users.
>
>
> UNQUOTE.
>
> Answer your question? :-)

The book and practice seems to be out of phase :-)

It is simple to create new user(s). They are by default administrators (well, 
elevated rights), so that has to be fixed manually.   

-- 
Regards, Rajko.
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