Re: [Full-Disclosure] Windows user privileges

[Dennis Mowers <dlmowers@xxxxxxxxx>]

Some blame may also be placed on the user.


--- Paul Schmehl <pauls@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> --On Saturday, November 20, 2004 8:19 AM -0500 Mike
> Hoye 
> <mhoye@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On every XP install that I've seen from every
> major OEM (Dell, Compaq,
> > Gateway, etc) fast user switching is on by default
> and every user is
> > an administrator. Not "on most"; on every single
> one.
> >
> > Furthermore, these machines don't have actual XP
> OS install CDs, they
> > usually come with "restore" CDs that just return
> the PC to this same
> > initial state if they're used, which they almost
> never are.
> >
> > I have never seen a home user, that is to say
> change that setting or
> > create a user who is actually just a "User". Not
> once, ever.
> >
> And this is a flaw of the *OS*?  Or of the *OEM*?
> 
> 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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