full-disclosure - local SYSTEM on Windows vs. local root on Unix

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Message-ID: <1074648381.5833.2.camel@caspar.magi.net.au>
From: kaneda at magi.net.au (K_aneda)
Subject: local SYSTEM on Windows vs. local root on
	Unix

On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 08:20, KF wrote:
> I am currious to know what you folks think the differences are between 
> obtaining local SYSTEM on a win32 box and obtaining root on a Unix machine.
> 
> Same thing?
> Different?
> One is worse than the other? Which one? Why?

Same thing - both LocalSystem and root(uid=0) have complete control over
the system.

Though it could be said that's it harder to get root on most *nix
machines than it is to get LocalSystem on a Windows machine..

-- 
 - K_aneda