Am Die, 2003-04-29 um 23.37 schrieb Michael Toomim: > Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > It's nothing to do with priorites, and everything to do with best practice, > > common sense, and educating people to do the right thing. > > But the definition of "best practice" and "the right thing" is a result > of priorities. > > I feel like people tend to accept these "best practices" as dogma > without actually thinking about them. Your arguments haven't convinced > me otherwise. > >
You should see this from an educational point of view, too. The average user should not think that the "root" is a normal user account. Tasks performed as root always require special attention and have to be done carefully. So the access to root rights should not be a normal thing - I don't say that it should not be made easy. We have nice tools for this, eg. gtksu and gnomesu. Secondly, I have seen many users doing the initial system stuff loged in as "adminstrator" or "root". But they also bookmark a page or perform other little tasks, eg. wirte a notice, on their first login. The most users are lazy and do not want to search a bookmark or write a notice again, so they login as root once again - and mostly they stay root. Sebastian
