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Well, there's always a tradeoff between convenience and security; that's a given.  But by 
running as root you're essentially sacrificing most all security, and I don't think it's 
necessary (and I DO do a lot with my pc).  I'm not advocating setting things up such that a 
regular user account can essentially do anything anyhow - to do so is, to my mind, no 
different from running as root, and I think it's unneeded and a bad idea.

> > most things--in fact, more things than you might 
> > expect--can easily be coaxed 
> 
> BINGO!  "coaxed" is the key.  Why bother coaxing a thousand things for a
> user account, thereby opening those things up to other applications the
> user runs.

> If everything on the PC is specific to that one user (root or
> otherwise), then there is no worse harm running the buggy app as root or
> user xyz.  In fact a good argument can be made that you are introducing
> a false sense of security by what you say above.  Do you REALLY know
> what that buggy app just did?

Eh?

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