From: Robertino B. <rb...@ai...> - 2005-10-20 17:47:00
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Hi, You guys are 100% right about Administrator stuff on Windows (how to use it, and when not to use it). However, I was just stating the fact how it is in that side of the world for folks who never been to unix worlds (that's why you hear so many times how "trojans" and "viruses" take over huge numbers of user machines, both at homes and inside companies). Guys in the Win world are symply used to that behavior, and I don't see it would change in the near future. That goes for home users as well: for example, when you get WinXP Home on Dell machine - you get to create an account which by default sits in Administrator's group. In fact, every account you create during that initial, first time start up process, sits in Admin group. You have to remove it from there to "restricted" if you want different behavior. Of course, an average WinXP user wouldn't know that. Only thing s/he sees is "everything works and is possible" until some "trojan" sits on his/her machine. I would too wote for three way check-box. Eclipse has that way of installing, how Bronek here suggested: everything gets installed in that path which user picked. That's ok in unix worlds, but I've seen it installed under various paths on Win machines, such as "Documents and Settings...My Documents" (and that's no place for executable to be installed on Windows machine). Seen it installed mutiple times as well... Not so sure if that's the best behavior for a package on Windows. Best, r. On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:10:52 -0700, Leif W <war...@us...> wrote: >> From: "Robertino Benis" <rb...@ai...> >> Received: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:48:15 AM EDT > >> Hi, >> >> Those are Windows machines you are talking about. User (developer) on >> the >> WinXP desktop is usually an administrator (member of an administrator's >> group). >> >> Very often, team members are all part of the administrator group on >> shared >> machines. In that case the one who is installing maybe don't want to >> corrupt other user profiles on that machine. >> >> Again, I don't remember seeing people sitting in front of the WinXP >> desktop and _not_ being an administrator or member of administrator's >> group. It's different world... > > As an aside, since I came from *nix, it just feels wrong to surf the net > as > root/Administrator. Sure enough, I've on occasion found some nasty > files that > slip by defenses. Better off to restrict the damage that can be done. > So I > normally log in to an unprivileged account, and "runas /user:root cmd". > I've > yet to encounter a hostile program that hijacks a Command prompt in > Windows. > I don't know if it really gets me anything, but it seems better that at > least > any hostile program won't have Administrator rights. > > About the checkbox / radio button / selection option, I think the > three-way is > a good one. > > Leif > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, > and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > _______________________________________________ > MinGW-users mailing list > Min...@li... > > You may change your MinGW Account Options or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-users > -- Robertino Benis Airyz Limited |