>
> > Where have you found these 99% of people? Obviously, of all posting
in
> > this thread just two people have seen it - one of them developer.
So,
> > speaking about *users* the score is currently 100% against it :-)
>
> Well, here at Mandrake we sure do tweaking of system all day long, and
no
> one of us is logged as root of course.
>
> Some of us use sudo a lot, some of us (like me) open one terminal and
> become root with "su" in this terminal, and that's fine, but no one
logs
> into the WM as root. It's especially dangerous to do mail/web/news,
cvs
> stuff, and any normal operations with root, and I don't see a good
reason
> to do that provided you have su and sudo.
>
Sigh ... you argue wrong point. Me too not working as root @home (window
manager or no window manager). I happened to notice it only because it
was test system that is reinstalled from scratch every day and I see no
point in creating additional users every time (if I need to test
something specific I always can do it).
But now, when I noticed it, I just say it is way too intrusive. We
already have root warnings and that is quite enough. You may advice, you
may teach, you should not force.
So I am not against the idea, I am against the way it is implemented.
Actually, I'd say that carefully selected tools do much less harm than
newbie starting terminal emulator as root and trying to learn basic Unix
skills.
-andrej
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