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| Microsoft Patents sudo
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| From: | Joe Klemmer |
| Date: | Sat, 21 Aug 2004 12:22:04 -0400
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[Many have likely already seen this but just in case... jjk]
Microsoft Patents sudo
Posted by michael on Friday August 20, @22:00
from the you're-just-mad-you-didn't-think-of-it-first dept.
Jimmy O Regan writes "Justin Mason (of SpamAssassin fame) has this blog
entry: US Patent 6,775,781, filed by Microsoft, is a patent on the
concept of 'a process configured to run under an administrative
privilege level' which, based on authorization information 'in a data
store', may perform actions at administrative privilege on behalf of a
'user process'."
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/08/20/221230.shtml
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Joe Klemmer
Unix System/Network Administrator & Ad Hoc Programmer
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[Many have likely already seen this but just in case... jjk]
Microsoft Patents sudo
Posted by michael on Friday August 20, @22:00
from the you're-just-mad-you-didn't-think-of-it-first dept.
Jimmy O Regan writes "Justin Mason (of SpamAssassin fame) has this blog entry: US Patent 6,775,781, filed by Microsoft, is a patent on the concept of 'a process configured to run under an administrative privilege level' which, based on authorization information 'in a data store', may perform actions at administrative privilege on behalf of a 'user process'."
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/08/20/221230.shtml
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