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["James Miller (office)" <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
>
> > where users are not allowed to monkey around with the settings,
>
> I wish my in-laws were using Linux so that I could lock them
> into a user account.  They are running Windows2000  and at
> least once a week they monkey with some setting and then we
> get a phone call:  "Something's wrong.  Email doesn't work."
>
Win2K actually has user accounts/administration built in.  You could make
yourself administrator of their system, and assign them less priviledged
user accounts (technically speaking you could, that is: I don't know if
this would enhance interfamilial relations . . . :).  I've got a book on
Win2K user administration.  It's different, and of course far more
primitive, than user administration on a Linux system, but it is there.

James