Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 11th Sep 2006 17:56 UTC
A few days ago we reported on the fact that applications which have administrative rights in Vista (given by the user, of course) can disable User Account Protection altogether. This was seen as a security flaw; Ars, however, begs to differ: "When UAC is disabled, Vista gripes loudly about it. The Windows Security Center immediately notes that UAC has been turned off, and it prompts you to turn it back on using a system tray notification. From our own testing, it appears impossible to disable UAC without the Security Center noticing it, which makes it rather unlikely that a user is end up in a less secure state."
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"Sudo can be setup to function exactly like UAC. Try looking at Ubuntu, it works that way by default. So yes Linux does have a UAC like layer"
Not like Vista's! I can actually create an item in the desktop without being asked my password.