Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu (& Other) users beware

On 11/11/09 16:51, Stephen Davies wrote:
> Microsoft has patented 'sudo'

No, they haven't.

From my reading (and indeed one of the comments on the thread) they've
patented a GUI for 'su', rather than sudo, with a scary (from a security
perspective) idea that they may just give you a list of users that *can*
do what you're trying to do.

"I'm sorry Dave, you can't do that, but Bob can, so go and look under
his mousemat for his password"

It's still a shockingly bad patent though. As usual.
The only real new bit is probably the list of users part. There's
probably prior art for that as well.

Stuart
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