Response from: Corsair    (04/28/07 7:09pm)

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 8:29am)

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.

Response from: Rom    (04/29/07 4:15pm)

The thing is - Microsoft thinks that their UAC is so revolutionary that all other OS must follow it.

Response from: alan    (04/29/07 9:34pm)

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 4:03pm)

Windows does not have the security features of disk encryption that the BSD releaes have nor can it be hardened like gentoo and debian.