Options Help Chat with a consultant. Include archived documents. This content has been archived , and is no longer maintained by Indiana University. Information here may no longer be accurate, and links may no longer be available or reliable. Security of Information Technology Resources IT requires that you normally refrain from running your Windows computer as an administrator.
For more, see About the principle of least privilege. Then you will need to turn your computer off for UAC to be fully disabled. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. Search the community and support articles Windows Windows 7 Search Community member. I am new to windows7 and quite a lot of my own personal files and photos wont open,Message comes up you need administrators permission,I never had this with XP.
Free software is not proprietary. Linux is free software. It is not freeware. Not sure about the others listed in the previous comment, though Java certainly can be free. You are talking about free as in beer. I understood the OP to be primarily talking about free as in freedom. The LaTeX packages I've published are free software, but they are certainly not freeware.
Dunk You were the one who quoted Wikipedia's definition ;. You asked which part of it didn't apply. As far as I know, that is the generally accepted definition. In any case, if you mean 'freeware' in the broader sense, your claim that freeware is generally a source of trojans and malware is obviously false. If the OP really means 'Windows' when they say 'Linux' and 'freeware' when they say 'free software', then your claim has merit.
Otherwise, not. Note that RHEL is freeware according to your definition, even if you pay for it because you can download the code etc. Show 13 more comments. The following makes excessive assumptions about what your work entails, but Get computing time on an external HPC resource in the UK that would be Archer or a field specific resource such as DiRAC , as you need compute resource beyond that which your university can provide.
Say to the university that, as HPC systems run on Linux and they update software on their own release cycles, it's necessary for you to have your own Linux-based system that you can update to match so you can effectively develop and maintain the code to run on the HPC system. Ian Ian 8, 1 1 gold badge 24 24 silver badges 27 27 bronze badges.
Add a comment. Daniel R. Collins Daniel R. Collins Indeed, this was previously our system too! There were several mentions of sudo, but what keeps you from doing sudo su -? They could restrict it to a particular program, but then it would either be not very useful or bypassable for example sudo gcc -E With package manager access you can always: remove something, replace the kernel, install something that has install time configuration and allows writing arbitrary files.
John John 6 6 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. The situation is currently as you describe, my machine has limited access to shared drives, etc, and I have control over it. I'm happy with this compromise. But, the new policy is much more draconian.
EDIT A few more points. If your IT department gets it right you will be able to:- Log into any machine on campus and access your data and your data will be regularly backed up and reside on a secure fail-safe infrastructure.
No more USB sticks with critical and confidential data on them. No more academics in tears because the only copy of their work was kept on a single external HDD that failed. Have access to that data from a home computer should you need it.
Possibly with some caveats having the right anti-virus installed maybe. Have a LOT of available space if you need it. It saves them a fortune.
The ability to install and uninstall common software without involving IT. Access to temporary isolated from the internet VMs in a secure University owned cloud with admin access to do tasks that absolutely need it. You should be able to stand up a virtual PC in less than 5 minutes and then discard it when you're done. Less stressed IT support because they're not overloaded cleaning up the fallout from the latest phishing scam so response times should be much better.
In fact, you should have a published service catalogue from IT detailing what services they offer, how much they cost and how quickly you can expect a response. This is all standard stuff they should have time for if the environment becomes more controlled.
Seriously, this is a positive move. Embrace it, support it and you will be better off. Push for a better funded IT You'll likely have the same luck. I am administering my own machine, and I have never needed IT's help, freeing their time to deal with the people that need it.
Plus, many academic packages are free for academics, so I can download and compile a copy, but the license prohibits its redistribution, so the university wouldn't be able to include it in their repository. Your ideas appear completely out of touch with reality. You talk about "compromised" computers and assume bad faith in everyone using your network, where in reality a machine not owned by the university has absolutely no difference with an average compter connected to an average ISP.
The correct action to dealing with insecure computers is to isolate them from the secure network. How does not having admin rights or having them only in a VM prevent me for running torrent software?
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