Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 27th Nov 2006 19:36 UTC
"eWEEK Labs has been testing Microsoft Windows Vista builds for more than three years, and our evaluation of the final code shows that the new operating system is a significant improvement over its predecessor, Windows XP. What's more, with a raft of subsystem and driver model improvements, Microsoft has laid out in Vista a solid foundation for stability and usability gains in future Windows versions. For enterprises running XP on their desktops and notebooks, however, a Vista upgrade is no slam-dunk. While Vista's new UAC facilities can make it easier for companies to appropriately lock down their desktops, for instance, it's quite possible to run a well-managed shop of XP machines, either out of the box or with the aid of lockdown tools."
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2006-01-06
"There's no easy way for me to grant one person read access (or write access) to a particular file"
All you need to do is create new groups, add users to those groups. And you don't have to rely on root to create groups for you if he makes you a sudo-er for a command or simple script to create new groups (and note that being a sudo-er doesn't mean that you necessarily have privs for *every* root action, it is possible to fine-grain your access to these even in traditional UNIX).
Why is it a problem that daemons below port 1024 need to be started by root? All this identifies is that processes using these ports must be more secure, and if its become convention to start certain processes on ports below this number, it's been done because of this fact.