Linux should use Vista's UAC
Filed in archive Securing on April 28, 2007
Whilst this one speaks about the Mac OS X and compares it with Microsoft's Vista security features, the same can be said of linux vs vista's security. Mac OS X and Linux, both coming from a Unix background, share practically the same base security design, i.e., administrators/root and users are two different beasts with different privileges and access rights.
Not until recently has Microsoft realized this - BUT wait - it seems like Microsoft is claiming that their User Account Control (UAC) is one that all operating systems should aspire for. This is true if Microsoft did this twenty-thirty years ago!
Heck, if this is what all OS should aspire to, then forget it! I'm pretty satisfied with "sudo", both on my Ubuntu box and Mac OS X. How about you - would you rather click on a dozen windows to delete a single file?
[apologies to Apple, Inc. for the video]
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Response from:
Corsair
(04/28/07 9:09pm)
MS wanted to tell a joke or something? MS was talking about their security, again, and UAC in a single-user OS? That's quite funny.
Response from:
cquinn
(04/29/07 10:29am)
Don't a few distros already have an auto-sudo feature, that can prompt the user for credentials to elevate priveleges when needed?
UAC is basically the same idea applied to the "runas" command; with differences in how the system
handles user mode and ownership in an NT-based OS rather than in a un*x environment.
You don't have to click on a dozen windows to delete a single file in either of them, unless the
user account trying to delete that file might have had serious reasons to not be able to remove it in the first place.
UAC is basically the same idea applied to the "runas" command; with differences in how the system
handles user mode and ownership in an NT-based OS rather than in a un*x environment.
You don't have to click on a dozen windows to delete a single file in either of them, unless the
user account trying to delete that file might have had serious reasons to not be able to remove it in the first place.
Response from:
Rom
(04/29/07 6:15pm)
The thing is - Microsoft thinks that their UAC is so revolutionary that all other OS must follow it.
Response from:
alan
(04/29/07 11:34pm)
As I understand it UAC is similar to MAC(Mandatory Access Control). A process run by an admin/root can have limited priveleges. MAC is currently implemented by SELinux which can be turned on in some distro. I still prefer the current Linux security. Much simpler for desktops.
Response from:
George Bush
(02/24/08 6:03pm)
Windows does not have the security features of disk encryption that the BSD releaes have nor can it be hardened like gentoo and debian.
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