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The OS has protections in place that make the additional bloat of which
you speak, unnecessary.

Windows doesn't protect it's files as diligently as you might think,
either.  I wouldn't rely on it's internal functionality as far as I
could throw a mainframe server.  I've personally seen it fail a great
deal, as well as it's much-famed "System Restore" functionality.  Hell,
the machine I currently am forced to use can't even be bothered to run
'autochk' successfully at startup.  It appears that it tries to run
after Windows has granted exclusive access to the system drive to
itself.  *shrugs*  How smart is *that*?

I still have yet to see a Linux system fail to run fsck successfully on
startup, unlessed the filesystem was "fscked".  :-P

The point is that running without root access is something that enables
you to have a clear division of protections that isn't exactly easy to
surpass in a properly configured system.

And yet, if you really want to be that stupid, the system gives you the
choice to do so.

But it would make me cringe to see every user running as root all of the
time.  That would keep the Internet open to the attacks that it's been
subject to since Windows became a clear player on the Internet.

	- Mike

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