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Message-ID: <200503040606.j2466wgr029078@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu) Subject: Bios programming... On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:46:54 +0530, Aditya Deshmukh said: > tell me how me people are going to use a guest accont on their own computer > and then be able to use the computer normally ? Actually, if the "regular user" needs more than "guest" privs to do their *normal* stuff, the system's security model is severely screwed. In fact, the *very first* thing that happened when computers got the ability to support multiple userids was to separate "user" and "sysadmin" - this was already a well-understood idea when Multics showed up in 1967 or so. Ever since then, there's only been one vendor of multi-user operating systems that thought that running with "more than usual" privs is a sane way to do things..... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 226 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20050304/455c5bab/attachment.bin
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