Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Jun 2006 15:46 UTC, submitted by Gabor
"Using a Limited account during your everyday work gives better protection against malicious software infection and accidental misconfiguration. But installing software or changing some system settings can be difficult in a low privileged environment. The sudoWn project can execute individual programs (or even a whole Windows shell) with temporary Administrator privileges under your user profile. This means you can use a low privileged environment and elevate your rights transitionally for software installation or systemwide configuration comfortably."
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RE: Sudo for Windows won't work...
by JustAnotherMacUser on Wed 14th Jun 2006 23:30
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Then there is this problem on our machines that a exploit program will pop up a "Mac OS X " looking window simply asking for the admin password of the user.
Then there is this problem that root level application installs are getting broken in Mac OS X updates.
Sudo won't last long on Windows, trust me.
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2006-01-08
It's not really working all that well on Mac OS X.
What's happening is programs are demanding a sudo (aka admin password) to access root to install their programs.
It's like we are held hostage, either give or else go without.
Then these programs are not listing exactly what they are doing or why they need root access to begin with.
A lot of programs are asking for it and really don't need it or they hype a feature that does need it. Like it's a contest who can got to root first.
For instance say product A is already installed but not in root. Then product B comes along and requires it, it then can delete/hobble/report the existence of product A.
So there is this race to get to root under the guise of "more features".
Then there is this problem where root level installs of applications have given hackers access to root of Mac OS X itself. Every application programmer seems to think their code is perfect and they are not human and make mistakes, or marketing is pushing stuff out there before it's adequately checked for errors. Basically it's commercial trojanware.
Now on our platform is a slight bump on the radar, a looming threat. But on the majority of Windows, with all the software and increased competition, I don't see "sudo" being respected by developers at all, heck all of them are run by marketing departments which want to know everything and control our computers..
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70802-0.html?tw=rss.technology