[67398] in Cypherpunks
RE: WINDOWS NT ????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Fricker)
Sat Oct 5 11:09:29 1996
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: John Fricker <jfricker@vertexgroup.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 07:57:22 -0700
>Adamsc (Adamsc@io-online.com) said something about Re: WINDOWS NT ???? on =
or about 10/5/96 1:00 AM
>
>Microsoft claims C2 or higher for NT and deserves any ragging they get if
>it's not. Ditto for any other vendor who claims one thing and sells
>another.
You ought to read about C2.=20
DIdn't Steve Martin say something like "criticize things you don't know abo=
ut".
>BTW: Bizarre NT Quirk #15413 - The Administrator account does not have
>access to the entire disk. You got it - if you're the administrator you
>still cannot look into certain directories belonging to another user - eve=
n
>if you've given all access privileges to the Admin account. Got a few
>chuckles at work.
>
It's not rocket science to defeat this. The administrator is prevented from=
casually peering into user owned directories but any administrator worth a=
nickle can tap tap click and have access to any directory.=20
