On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 01:05:33PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
I have three machines. I am the *ONLY* person with access to any of
them.
One machine has my projects and associated data. There is an image
of its hard drive on a 1TB USB drive which is currently not
connected. This machine is physically incapable of connecting to the
internet.
My second machine is effectively dedicated to email and web
browsing. As I am on dial-up there is only a connection when
actively in use. JavaScript and cookies are initialized to OFF each
tine load SeaMonkey.
As I said in my original post
(http://lists.debian.org/5245CCD2.9010107@cloud85.net), the third
machine is set aside for experimenting OS installs. Thus the only
"data" not from install media are boot menus and configuration info.
So why shouldn't I want the same privileges in the GUI as I have
after issuing su in the command line mode?
It's easy to screw up with root privileges when you've got a
command line moderating you; with a windowing system, you might
not even know you've screwed up until it's much too late to do
anything but restore from backup.