Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3031 mails)

[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

James Knott wrote:
> Basil Chupin wrote:
> > The need to create a normal, limited access, user in XP Professional
> > is not something which is enforced in Professional which is why, I
> > understand, most XP Prof. setups are being run by a home user with
> > full Admin. rights. I cannot see why the Home edition should be more
> > security conscious than the Professional edition, and also cost much
> > less, unless SP1 and SP2 introduced the ability to create
> > limited-access users in the Home edition.
>
> I believe both versions work the same.  The first account has admin
> rights and many people don't go beyond that to create users with
> restricted rights.  They simply don't realize the difference between
> admin and user.

Which is caused by Microsoft not making the default name something
like "admin", and prompting the user to come up with their own
name for the "first account" which the uninformed person is, more
often than not, going to name after themselves, as a personal 
account (because MS doesn't tell them that it's NOT a personal account).



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