On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 20:06:01 +0000, Jan Panteltje wrote:

> Dangerous, idiot!
> you have no idea what dangerous is.
>
I'm with druck here. Doing more than you absolutely have to as root
leaves the machine open to bigger and better attacks for no good reason.

Routinely running Windows boxes as SystemAdmin or, worse, assigning that
privilege to their usual login is what gets so many home systems infected
by malware because it too gets access to everything.

Similarly, reading mail or running a web browser while logged in as root
gives any malware in mail or on infected websites unlimited access to
your system by letting it also run as root, but those are only the most
obvious dangers.

That is why sensible people never run as root for any longer than
absolutely necessary, don't configure servers to run as root and don't
recommend running as root to newbies.


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