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What horrible mistake was made with UAC prompting? The alternative is admin-privileged programs do not run. See Linux and sudo for an actual terrible decision
by fishtacos 4y ago
What horrible mistake was made with UAC prompting?
The alternative is admin-privileged programs do not run. See Linux and sudo for an actual terrible decision in privilege escalation in terms of desktop usage.
- mavhc 4y agoVista prompted for everything, so much so you'd get fatigued and auto click yes, making it useless. What's up with sudo?
- fishtacos 4y agoSudo is unusable in a GUI. Simple as that. It's unintuitive to create a user with sudo rights, and it is unintuitive to run a program with admin rights in a DE. Vista upgraded the security expectations, although rather harshly compared to XP, but much more useful than anything Linux had or still has. Being prompted vs. looking up commands in manpages/wikis/blogs are two very different things. Pretending that blindly typing "sudo" in a terminal prompt anytime a command doesn't work without it doesn't make it any better than UAC.
- mavhc 4y agoIf I try to run, say, software updates on Ubuntu, it prompts me for my password/fingerprint, isn't that the same?
- fishtacos 4y agoI imagine usability might've changed over time, but in my default Ubuntu DE I can't run an app as Admin via a "Run As" option. Have to delve into config files to change either shortcut properties or to manually create a "Run As" option. As far as prompts go - why does Chrome/Chromium prompt me on a clean install for a gpg key ring password upon every run? Is that not worse Than Vista? My point is, Linux, even at its most refined, most popular version, lags behind Vista.
- mavhc 4y agoI've not seen that Chrome prompt. I guess you can't run things as root, but I've never noticed before now, guess I've never needed to