Re: Advantage of XML based GUI? (was Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language)

[Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 01:53:42 GMT, Nick Roberts wrote:
>>I hope you are thinking of doing it the UNIX way. I mean that the user
>>does not have root/administrator privileges and that there is only one
>>root superuser which is not used unless when one needs to install
>>software.
> 
> AdaOS will be a fully object oriented OS, and its design is not closely
> related to any of the Unixen. I am considering the various security schemes
> offered by CORBA at the moment. I may well choose to enhance these with
> many further facilities. 

I was only thinking in the respect of how you define users.

> The security mechanisms of AdaOS will be built into each object (class),
> and will be tailored to the specific needs of that object (class); this is
> a considerably more sophisticated approach than any isomorphic OS can
> offer.

So if somebody runs a program that contains a virus of some kind he will
not deleting the hard disc for example? The reason for my question was
that one can in Linux choose to login as root all the time when one has
ones own machine, but this is utterly stupid. The reason is that if you
run a rouge program it will have access to all the disc and can do
anything as it would be run under superuser priveliges. Therefore one
makes a normal user and uses this all the time and only use the
superuser when one need to install software. In Windows they put the
superuser priveliges on one of the users... That's why I'm asking.

Preben