Workstations: good reasons for owner root access

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <125 at leibniz.UUCP> tpc at leibniz.UUCP (Tom Chmara) writes:
>   Are there any cogent arguments for or (gulp) against root access?

The most serious problem is that, in many networking implementations,
super-user access on one system is tantamount to super-user access on
all machines in the entire (local) network.

The UNIX "super-user" UID should really be used only by privileged
utilities, not by people.  There should be NO NEED, in a properly
configured system, for a person to type "su" in order to perform
system-administrative actions.