> That's a bug. It means that you have to do almost _everything_ on
> that machine as root. You can't compile stuff. You can't read
> docs. It's almost as bad as Win9x.
It sounds valid enough for a relatively static server, spending quite
some time as root at first to perform initial installs and granting of
permissions - then ensuring that normal users can do little except that
which you have explicitly allowed.
The set "normal users" would presumably not be comprised of most of the
people on this list :-)
Dave
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