full-disclosure - Re: need help in managing administrators

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Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:23:05 -0500
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: James Matthews <nytrokiss@...il.com>
Subject: Re: need help in managing administrators

On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:34:01 +0100, James Matthews said:

> Why are you removing the admins? based on what you wrote the computer
> network will probably turn into a massive mess with all these programs
> installed and users as admins..

Actually, my first guess is that Happy Nino is trying to *clean up* a network
that's infected with users-as-admins, and he's just discovered that if you
don't let the users be admins, somebody *else* has to install the software...

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