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["Krzysztof A. Suchecki" <christopher.suchecki AT wp.pl>]

James Miller wrote:

> As I'm recalling, adding
> additional users to BL1 was a feature implemented only fairly late in the
> development (someone finally wrote a script for it, as I recall).  

Sebastian Ertz wrote a script to add user to BL1. I modified it a little
and added mine for removing users.

> Is there any good reason for BL users to add a less priviledged user
> account to their system and use that account  most of the time, as other
> desktop distros encourage?  

On BL systems I run as root usually. Just because BL runs as a client
distro (no servers in default installation, you can't i.e remote login 
into BL box). But if anything you can't remote use is running
(like i.e. ftpd), I use nonroot account (just named nonroot :) ). 
Also when being online I'm not logging as root. 
BL is based on old Slack, on old software, so someone
may use old well-known holes to crack the BL system.

On big distros like RedHat I run as root very rarely.


Chris


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