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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!alistair
- From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
- Subject: Re: Process Security in NT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.030828.28144@microsoft.com>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 03:08:28 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <sxjcb-100992122022@sxjcb.uacn.alaska.edu>
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- In article <sxjcb-100992122022@sxjcb.uacn.alaska.edu> sxjcb@orca.alaska.edu (Jay C. Beavers) writes:
- >
- >I'm surprised to find that NT requires you to log in. This brings up the next
- >question which I haven't found an answer to, does NT have user security
- >restrictions on processes? I.E. does this process run in the background
- >with this security level while a separate process runs with a different
- >security level?
-
- Windows NT requires you to login, since it is a secure system which controls
- access to reseources by user-id/password pairs, locally, and accross a
- network
-
- Yes, Windows NT runs background processes (which we call services) with
- different security contexts
-
- >If so, why all the moaning about lack of multi-user
- >support in NT? All the basics are more than present and a telnetd is
- >nothing more than a background daemon that hasn't been written yet.
-
- Agreed
-
- >BTW, is anyone thinking of writing a GUI version of telnet or rlogin? Is
- >it going to be necessary or is RPC and peer-to-peer networking going to
- >totally replace the command-line login metaphor?
-
- Windows NT comes with "a GUI telnet" - telnet is provided as a comm
- driver, and you can simply use Terminal and select the "telnet" port
- instead of com1, com2, etc
-
- Net Manage have already shown their Telnet for Windows ported to Windows NT,
- and I'm sure that rlogin and the rest will follow
-
- >Are daemon and process bad words for NT that have been replaced with more
- >'MC (Microsoft Correct)' jargon? Threads means processes, but how about
- >daemon? Background thread?
-
- Threads dont mean processes at all - Daemons may well be compared to
- services, unix processes to Windows NT processes, but threads are
- multiple paths of execution within the same code and dataspace in
- a single process - ie, a register set and unit of execution - some
- unixes have threads, but threads arent Microsoft jargon
-
- -- Alistair
-