full-disclosure - Windows user privileges

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From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: Windows user privileges

--On Saturday, November 20, 2004 8:19 AM -0500 Mike Hoye 
<mhoye@...n.polkaroo.net> wrote:
>
> On every XP install that I've seen from every major OEM (Dell, Compaq,
> Gateway, etc) fast user switching is on by default and every user is
> an administrator. Not "on most"; on every single one.
>
> Furthermore, these machines don't have actual XP OS install CDs, they
> usually come with "restore" CDs that just return the PC to this same
> initial state if they're used, which they almost never are.
>
> I have never seen a home user, that is to say change that setting or
> create a user who is actually just a "User". Not once, ever.
>
And this is a flaw of the *OS*?  Or of the *OEM*?

Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu