[cap-talk] Connection between UAC and Multics proposal

[Karp, Alan H]

Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> 
> What will UAC do? I tried to read about it on MS Technet, but 
> I only got
> some huge marketing crap telling me how better the world will be with
> UAC...
> 
To put the most important aspect of UAC into Unix terms, you won't have
to run as root all the time.  UAC is the same as LUA (Least User
Access), so you might find some useful information under that term.

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