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Use desktop images to identify current user
Authored by: gshenaut on Jun 10, '04 06:38:15PM

I think changing screen backgrounds is a fine way to identify what mode you're in, or what user you currently are, but I don't quite grok the logic behind having a separate admin user. I'm thoroughly aware of the problems with running as root or superuser, but what are the possible pitfalls of working as an admin user?

All admin privilege means is that you have the right to go through an authentication procedure to do certain things in the system. Without admin privileges, you can still do plenty of harm--for example, you can easily delete all of your own files even without it.

It is true that as an admin user, you can write group-writable files which have gid=80, and there are indeed many such files. Is that the main pitfall you had in mind???

Greg Shenaut



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