In some mail from Ryan Russell, sie said: [...] > For Windows users, The MS guys gave an interesting talk at the NTBugtraq > Canada Day Party at Russ' house last year. NT2000 will include a feature that > is similar to su on unix, which will allow one to have different windows open > as different users on the same box... I believe it's an extension of the > terminal server concept. Anyway, once folks get NT2000, they should really > consider running their browsers as locked-down, non-priveledged users. > > I believe you can do the same on most modern unices now with judicious > use of su and xhost adjustments. Except that user preferences are no longer stored as being owned by *that* user (roaming profile problems anyone ?), per-user disk cache usage isn't associated with the correct user, etc. Can you really imagine 90% of Internet users being savvy enough to run a browser in an "su" window ? The other option here for M$ is to reinvent the setuid bit :-> Darren
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