In article <4i************@individual.net>, "Gernot Frisch" <Me@Privacy.netwrites:
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"Richard Heathfield" <in*****@invalid.invalidschrieb im Newsbeitrag
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No. He's bright enough to realise how astoundingly stupid it is to
use the root account except when you really, really have to.
Which is almost every minute on Windows....
Nonsense. I've been developing software professionally on Windows,
using a non-administrative account for nearly everything I do, since
NT 4.0 was released. People who do everything on Windows using an
administrative account simply haven't bothered to learn how to use
the OS.
Prior to the introduction of the "runas" command, it was useful to
have something like Microsoft Services for Unix installed, so that
you had some equivalent to Unix's "su" and could run individual
commands with a different user's authority. Now that capability is
included with the base OS, and there is no excuse for working as an
administrative user where it's not necessary.
I frequently hear that "some applications, such as Microsoft Office,
don't work if you're not an administrator". I use MS Office - I
loathe it, but it's a company standard - every day, and I have never
had it refuse to do what I needed it to do simply because I was using
a non-administrative account. Because it's full of bugs and
generally brain-dead, yes, but not because I'm not running it as an
administrator.
Windows has many problems, but this is not one of them.
--
Michael Wojcik
mi************@microfocus.com
Ten or ten thousand, does it much signify, Helen, how we
date fantasmal events, London or Troy? -- Basil Bunting
