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From: Aragorn on 4 Aug 2010 16:39
On Wednesday 04 August 2010 09:57 in comp.os.linux.misc, somebody
identifying as David Brown wrote...

> [...]
>
> Regarding multi-user support, NT had it from the start at the lower
> levels - things like ACL support in the file system, and user,
> ownership and permission information for all processes and system
> objects. What has always been almost entirely missing (and still is,
> even in Win7) is support in the user-level system - the file system
> layout, the gui, the software (from MS and from third parties) views
> multiple users as a personalisation issue, not a security issue. Thus
> you have multiple logins so that different users can have different
> desktop backgrounds and have their files somewhat separated - but not
> so that you keep them securely separated.

That is, in much better wording, what I was trying to say. Thanks,
David. ;-)

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*Aragorn*
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