--On Friday, November 19, 2004 01:12:31 PM -0500 "Crotty, Edward" <Edward.Crotty@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Are You an idot ? When i start MS and look at my emty desktop, under what ID that graphic interface runs ?
I'm not a Win based guy (troll?) - Un*x here - and even I was offended byThat's not all.
#1.
There is such a thing as "runas" for Windows.
-----Original Message----- From: full-disclosure-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:full-disclosure-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of devis Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 11:10 AM Cc: full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox
1) Despite recent ameliorations of MS ( multi user finally, permissions ... ) and some effort at making the system more secure, something very important is still left out: The first default user of the MS computer is made an administrator.
Apparently you don't have very broad experience with OSes. ON *every* OS I'm familiar with, the first user is the administrator (or root) account.
See up there. You need to learn to read and make sense of it. Once again, I AM NOT ARGUEING THAT THE FIRST ACCOUNT CREATED HAS AN UID0.This comes down to giving uid0 to ur first unix user. Unix does NOT do that. It requieres you to use su and become root ( administrator ) after proper credentials submission ( password ).
When's the last time you installed an OS from scratch? Gentoo, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, RedHat, Fedora, Slackware, Mac OS X, Debian, Solaris, *all* create the first user as uid0 during the install process. (I can't speak for the others because I haven't done those, but I'd be willing to bet that NetBSD, AIX, HP-UX, SCO et. al. work exactly the same way.)
Unix does not grant users root access by default, and it does a much better job of separating privileges by requiring you to join the wheel group *and* either use sudo or su to do work as root, but Windows doesn't make users the admin by default *either*, unless you setup Fast User Switching *during* the install.IT does makes the first installer of the box the default user. And that first default user HAS administrator priviledges. What what part of this is not clear ? With or without Fast User Switching. Ever installed XP ?
many unixes don't use a wheel group. --------- snip -----------
% grep wheel /etc/group % Debian linux
Please proove ur point and run IIS from an unpriviledged account.The first user is NOT and administrator, and any recent Unix documentation will insist on the danger of running as root(admin). Unix keeps the admin account well separated from the user account, which MS DOESN'T,
That's simply false. Windows has several groups. By default users are in the "USERS" group, *not* the ADMINISTRATORS group.
It might make sense if you actually had knowledge of an OS before you criticize it.
I ahve admined nt4 boxes, and before being insulting, u should maybe look up again and re read. I do know nt ways, and it is just a pale implementation of permissions. They perfected it in 2003 but still has much to be desired. Took them long enuf to get user roles / id werking.Please do the same in Windows. Here's a hint. You'll get the same results.Please install a proper unix, create 2 accounts and try to read the home directory of the second user from the first.
2) "After all, they don;t need to know" . " You're on a need to know basis job" Do MS really think the users are stupid ?
Probably. Otherwise they wouldn't have those stupid warnings popup every time you try to delete something. Are you SURE you want to do this???? Yes, damn it!!
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Oh baloney. Learn a little more about the OS before you make assumptions that make you look ignorant.
Lets not hide from ourselves whats needed from MS to reach modern world security: a complete rewrite, and a ditch of old Dos base and the 20 years old legacy code.
Aside from the default permissions, you can also granularly apply privileges in many ways. For example, by default USERS have Read & Execute, List Folder Contents and Read access to the Windows folder, its contents and all it's subfolders. In addition, there are fourteen (14) separate rights that can be explicity granted or denied to them at that level only or to all subfolders as well, to files only, to subfolders only, to subfolders *and* files only, etc., etc.
I'm not Windows fan, but the least you can do is learn the subject before you claim expert status and presume to preach to others.
While we're lecturing the unwashed, would you mind trimming your replies? Who needs six levels of FD disclaimers?
Paul Schmehl (pauls@xxxxxxxxxxxx) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu
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