[no subject]

At the risk of sounding redundant... the only two suggested problems
that have been posted seem to only have to deal with "rm -rf /" and
fsck.  Both are dangerous things, but minor compared to what the
non-root user can do to data in their own directory.  From an
administrator of other peoples systems "rm -rf /" can be a headache, for
an administrator of their own system "rm -rf /home/user" is a bigger
headache.  The prior requires root to do, and yes if the system in use
is not administered by the user then the user needs a user account.  The
later can be accomplished by a user so non-root is just as bad as root.
Remember, we are talking about someone's desktop/laptop here, not some
shared shell server running at sf.net.

-Jim P.
 


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