The flip side
Posted : Tuesday April 28th, 2009

Of my ongoing Ubuntu issues is of course the standard Windows security by hijinks.

Trying to install Tomcat 6 on my Vista box. Launching the install and Vista checks my permission, which is fine and the install runs okay until the service installation part where it dies with a fairly ambiguous error message. I was able to get it installed eventually by disabling the UAC (security in Vista), which also took several reboots to disable and re-enable.

So, I did get it working but what kind of OS

• Requires reboots to modify running security models?
• Requires me to disable all security in order to allow one thing?
• Doesn't allow me, running as administrator, to do whatever I want even after asking me permission on top?
• Has very little documentation, logs, usable error messages for figuring all that out?

And the answer is Vista. So it's the same old security rubbish as always in Windows, sort of useful but not really because it lacks granularity, requires totally needless rebooting and is totally counter-intuitive.

Faaaan-tastic.

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problems  security  Vista 

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Security  Personal 

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