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At least in OSX
Whilke I haven't played in Linux in some time, I do use OSX.
As I remember the permissions are pretty similar.

In OSX, every time somebody with administrative privileges
goes to install anything on the hard drive, they're hit with a
password screen. That's the default setting. It would at
least warn somebody that they're about to install something
they didn't epect to install on the hard drive.

If a user does not have administrator priveleges, he/she can
only put stuff in their user folder. They would again be hit
with a password screen, indicating that they're about to do
something they didn't mean to do.

They're the default settings. Users can be further restricted
if you wish. Mac Classic, since 8, also had similar
protections built in, if you used the Multiple Users control
panel. That was put there so kids couldn't fouls up school
computers too much.
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Great turn-around time!  Xunil_Sierutuf | 02/02/04
What about me?!? Now I'm Stuck ...  coffeenite | 02/03/04
Nooooo  Bobby Sskcat | 02/02/04
ms could takes some lessons form MOZILLA  JWatson77 | 02/02/04
because...  DarbyOhara | 02/03/04
Why should you care!  DarbyOhara | 02/03/04
"our customers like the predictability"  MarcB_z | 02/02/04
I was thinking the exact same thing  Chad_z | 02/02/04
Re: "our customers like the predictability"  issthatso | 02/02/04
I thought Thursday was patch day? EOM  Chad_z | 02/02/04
Love the predictibility of a hack a month  ITGuy04 | 02/02/04
Oh great  tic swayback | 02/02/04
Re: Oh great  issthatso | 02/02/04
Exactly.  bhanes@... | 02/02/04
Release patches ASAP!  d_jedi | 02/02/04
great "fix"  ryusen | 02/02/04
I thought I was the only one...  TrollSlayer | 02/03/04
Think about this.....  Heatlesssun | 02/02/04
That's a mighty big assumption.....  Jose Jimenez | 02/02/04
Wouldn't necessarily need to be root  Heatlesssun | 02/02/04
As I also stated, but not a likely scenario. (NT)  Jose Jimenez | 02/02/04
Why wouldn' that be a likely scenario  Heatlesssun | 02/02/04
Start with the link that I posted....  Jose Jimenez | 02/02/04
Home Users  ShadeTree | 02/03/04
At least in OSX  j.m.galvin | 02/02/04
You can do pretty much the same thing in Windows...  Heatlesssun | 02/02/04
think about this.....  middle of nowhere | 02/02/04
What ?!?!?  coffeenite | 02/03/04
So now we're supposed to praise M$ 'cuase they patch more than once a month  toomuchgreeatea@... | 02/02/04
Alright! Got myself updated! happy (NT)  GraysonPeddie | 02/02/04
upgrade those servers  JWatson77 | 02/02/04
Education!!!  wallyweb@... | 02/03/04
Is there an end to this?  tero_t_vaananen@... | 02/03/04
MS PR move couldn't work  MacCanuck | 02/03/04
Affected Versions  cobraon | 02/03/04
Forgot to mention  cobraon | 02/03/04
What were you thinking?  ShadeTree | 02/03/04
I wanted to apply the patch ...  coffeenite | 02/03/04
Patch Installed Automatically...what's the big deal?  marksashton | 02/03/04
my issues with this patch  ryusen | 02/03/04
Unless the patch itself...  Yen_z | 02/03/04
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