From: "Mark IJbema" mark@ijbema.xs4all.nl Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 2:51 PM That's exactly the problem, you need to be some kind of wizzard to do windows system administration, while in Linux (or at least debian, i don't have much experience with other distro's) the default is secure, and you need to spend effort to make it insecure. I'll gladly believe that the windows security system is very good, but again it seems like another MS thingy: good idea, badly implemented :(
I have to agree here -- even Microsoft agrees with this statement - Windows comes (or came) setted up in the insecure way. At the Windows Server 2003 presentation, where I have been to, they told that now this problem is solved, and by default Win2003 is setted up with minimum permissions, and sys admin should really give permissions, rather than restrict them, while configuring a server.
And here ROS should certainly support this kind of idea.
But nevertheless bad default configuration isn't the cause to redesign the whole security system.
With the best regards, Aleksey Bragin.