From: John Cuccia 

When I worked for Marathon, 99% of the users were not local administrators
of their own machines, which were locked down and centrally administered.  
That enabled the company to reduce the
number of deskside support people dramatically.

I logged onto my laptop with a non-privileged account. On Mon, 19 Sep 2005
22:02:03 -0400, "Geo"  wrote:

>So who doesn't run as administrator on their own machine?
>
>Geo.
>
>"Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
news:432ed47e{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Because you cannot adjust the firewall settings without 'administrator'
>> priviledge.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> "Geo"  wrote in message
news:432a2b1d{at}w3.nls.net...
>> > What is already the case? I suggested that when a firewall rule change
>is
>> > detected that the firewall software verify that the change is
authorized
>> > by
>> > asking the user for a password before allowing the change to go into
>> > effect.
>> >
>> > Geo.
>> >
>> > "Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
>> > news:43294b61$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >> 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
>>
>>
>

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