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Old December 1st 05, 05:05 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin
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is it good practice on xp to drasticly limit user rights?
i mean, *everything* on the system, except user's "doc & sett" folder to be
just *read_only*

it should keep user [who is not admin] from modifying anything on the
system, so he is free of malwares and viruses and he cannot harm system
stability, at least not of other users having account on that workstation.

such setting should avoid user from performing hardware adding and driver
upgrade, and autoupdate because that operations excedes his limited rights.

is this config scenario applicable in the reality?

thnks for advice and suggestion


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Old December 1st 05, 06:50 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin
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sali wrote:
is it good practice on xp to drasticly limit user rights?
i mean, *everything* on the system, except user's "doc & sett"
folder to be just *read_only*

it should keep user [who is not admin] from modifying anything on
the system, so he is free of malwares and viruses and he cannot
harm system stability, at least not of other users having account
on that workstation.
such setting should avoid user from performing hardware adding and
driver upgrade, and autoupdate because that operations excedes his
limited rights.
is this config scenario applicable in the reality?


Make everyone "Users".. Not Power Users... Just Users.
That covers a lot of the normmal stuff.

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Old December 2nd 05, 12:40 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin
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Leythos wrote:
Except only Admin local users can run Citrix clients, and
Quickbooks and several others.


I still have not found a single application where that "have to be admin"
qualification cannot be gotten around with a little effort.

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Old December 2nd 05, 05:27 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin
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In article , Leythos
wrote:
Except only Admin local users can run Citrix clients, and Quickbooks and
several others.


http://www.threatcode.com has some suggestions on tweaking Quickbooks to make
it work properly - although it might be nice if Intuit were to actually fix
their software so that you don't have to make your accountant into a system
admin.

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