Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 09, 2002 09:47 AM
In windows 2000 at least you can run any software as any other user, you just choose the name and password. How easy it is to get the software itself to realize you don't have permissions to do something, and automatically choose to bring up this box to switch you to another user, I have no clue. There's also a problem with that. Linux, there's the root user, that's the password they ask for. Windows, there can be any number of 'Administrators'. Which account do you ask for the password for?
Windows XP at least lets you have multiple people logged on, but it's still a pain. But the ability to run a program as another user without logging out exists, just not nearly as easy/obvious. (Shift right click a file and choose Run As..)
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Re:Why windows users run as 'root'
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 09, 2002 09:47 AMWindows XP at least lets you have multiple people logged on, but it's still a pain. But the ability to run a program as another user without logging out exists, just not nearly as easy/obvious. (Shift right click a file and choose Run As..)
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