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Journal Journal: Is Ubuntu's security model stronger than Windows'?

Right now, as of Windows XP (changes in the upcoming Windows Vista release), Windows first user by default is being the computer administrator, so the user is able to accidentally modify system wide settings. Windows allows you to make it more secure by creating limited user accounts and using the Run As... option to run only particular tasks or programs as administrator (similar to the su feature in most Linux distributions). Run As... is crippled in its implementation, though. If you use Run A

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