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microsoft doesnt want to annoy people, but in a corporate environment this requirement is fully implemented on windows.
i was never under the impression macs belonged in a business environment. maybe apple just doesnt find that level of security important.
Thank you for the informative response. I was unaware Windows machines employed similar behavior in corporate environments.
Do you think, then, that it would be acceptable for Linux to remove these restrictions in home environments?
You are more than welcome to remove the need for any passwords at all on the linux systems you admin. Good thing about free software is that you decide how you want it, hack up or put up.
no. no reason to expand poor practices into linux because microsoft fucked up. we need 'least access required' methodology even at home because the world is full of bad actors.
if microsoft had correclty implemented security into dos/winx.x we wouldnt have had half the virus issues we did in the late 90s.
i think the other half was caused by activex
I don't think the security issues with windows stem from not having the user enter their password a bunch of times.
It's Linux. You can remove the restriction yourself.
It's not that hard to either give your user account perma-sudo or to remove the timeout so you only have to enter the password once per login. Slightly more involved would be manually changing which actions require root authentication.