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Authored by: nyarlathotep on Sep 07, '03 09:12:22PM

This is not what non-admin users are all about. No admin users are for PEOPLE YOU DO NOT TRUST. Its only designed for machines which you physically have control over, i.e. those sitting in the office or in the university cluster/lab. If you gave the guy a laptop to cart about, you trust him and should give him admin status, period.

If you need to give the laptop to another person later fine, but your going to need to reimage the laptop anyway, so you have no reason not to give the current guy admin status. If you have specialized software fine, but any specalized software which interacts with off-site machines must be built to use an untrusted client anyway.

Jeff



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