On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 5:58 AM, Mark Wendt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Gregg Eshelman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Windows I have my login with Administrator rights and turn off User >> Account Control so I don't have the OS constantly pestering me about "Do >> you really want to do that?" Are you *really* sure you want to do that?" >> "Come on, you really don't want to do that!".
It's moronic to run windows as an administrator unless you need to do so. I give myself a power user account and have a separate admin account. To do anything else is asking for infections. I thought msft was adopting a sudo-like capability, but it doesn't work as well as it should. Hardly surprising given the stupidity they have shown since Ballmer took over. Yeah, microsoft, I want my desktop with a 30" monitor to work just like my iPhone, that's the ticket. The fact that they make every user an administrator by default has led to more and more restrictions on the power of an administrator. You used to be able to do anything, now you have to seek help for anything out of the ordinary. And they are making new computers so that administrator accounts can't even control how it works. > > Sudo is a way to give certain users some, or all, of the privileges given > to the root account. Do a "man sudo" to see what can be done, > privilege-wise, based on permissions set in the /etc/sudoers under the > Ubuntu OS, or /etc/sudo.conf on other systems. sudo also has a time limit that means you don't have to type a password if you run it multiple times in a certain time period. That time limit is probably settable. You can also make a root account, but then you probably have to worry about permissions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
