From: "Paul Ranson" 

If you're running as a 'USER' then surely that is already the case? If
you're running as administrator then you've already authenticated yourself
to the machine.

Paul

"Geo"  wrote in message
news:4328dbce$3{at}w3.nls.net...
> Why MS? Do the transaction with the USER. Maybe require them to type in
> their password to make a firewall change and have the password encrypted
> via
> a one way hash.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
> news:4328b6fa$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> That's an interesting idea. Do an encrypted transaction with MS to enable
> a
>> firewall configuration change. That would be more secure...
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> "Geo."  wrote in message
news:432858e3$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> > Gee you make it sound so easy, if the admin owns the machine then
>> > activation
>> > is doomed to failure. Or is there some point to this
"more tedious"?
>> >
>> > I guess the users' firewall doesn't need to be as secure as the copy
>> > protection, huh?
>> >
>> > Geo.
>>
>>
>
>

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