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Authenticate admin username password - Automatically ??? How ?
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<blockquote data-quote="cazabam" data-source="post: 238807" data-attributes="member: 17895"><p>BallZach, while you may hate having to authenticate yourself to do certain things to your computer, consider the alternative. Windows doesn't ask for any authentication when an admin is logged in, and as a result has caused a MASSIVE global support problem. Even Vista is moving the the 'authenticate each time' system like OS X and other *nix systems already use.</p><p></p><p>You may wonder why this system is in place? Consider this: you log in as admin, and a piece of spyware or similar comes onto your system. It has your user privileges. Would you rather that it can tramp all over your system at will, or would you rather the system make sure that the entity requesting the change is really the admin (i.e. you?) The way it does this is by asking you your password. If somebody happens across your machine while you've turned your back, they can't damage the system or make changes as long as they haven't got your password.</p><p></p><p>You ask if I find it idiotic to have to provide your password after you've already logged in. What guarantee do you have that the person trying to remove this part of the OS is the same person who logged in 3 hours ago? None at all. The system asks again to make sure that it's you.</p><p></p><p>On a side note, the tone of your posts is quite inflammatory ("i said OS X is a JOKE" etc.) You are clearly quite wound up about this, but the fact is that Windows is the only OS that _doesn't_ authenticate in this way, and it's the one with the biggest malware problem - an admin that doesn't need to authenticate is a terrifying thing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cazabam, post: 238807, member: 17895"] BallZach, while you may hate having to authenticate yourself to do certain things to your computer, consider the alternative. Windows doesn't ask for any authentication when an admin is logged in, and as a result has caused a MASSIVE global support problem. Even Vista is moving the the 'authenticate each time' system like OS X and other *nix systems already use. You may wonder why this system is in place? Consider this: you log in as admin, and a piece of spyware or similar comes onto your system. It has your user privileges. Would you rather that it can tramp all over your system at will, or would you rather the system make sure that the entity requesting the change is really the admin (i.e. you?) The way it does this is by asking you your password. If somebody happens across your machine while you've turned your back, they can't damage the system or make changes as long as they haven't got your password. You ask if I find it idiotic to have to provide your password after you've already logged in. What guarantee do you have that the person trying to remove this part of the OS is the same person who logged in 3 hours ago? None at all. The system asks again to make sure that it's you. On a side note, the tone of your posts is quite inflammatory ("i said OS X is a JOKE" etc.) You are clearly quite wound up about this, but the fact is that Windows is the only OS that _doesn't_ authenticate in this way, and it's the one with the biggest malware problem - an admin that doesn't need to authenticate is a terrifying thing. [/QUOTE]
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