On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 17:47, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > Compared to losing my Debian installation (I am quite good at installing > systems from scratch... :), I have by far a bigger problem with somebody > doing rm -Rf /home/torsten on my system.
Running as user and catched a virus: /home/user gets removed. System ok Running as root and catched a virus: /root gets removed (where, remember, now all the user data is) _and_ System needs reinstall I know what I would choose. Which brings me to another point: running as root makes it harder to put the home dir on another partition or disk. Having a giant / is better (more convenient) for home systems, but keeping at least /home somewhere else is a good idea, maintenance wise
