Why does "root" worn everything?

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <7454 at brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
| software that requires privilege (e.g., "passwd").  Operating as
| "root" to do routine administrative actions is a stupid policy.

  I hope you say that somewhat casually. I consider backups to be a
routine administrative action, and don't have the luxury of being able
to do the daily in single user mode. If not root, then how would you do it?
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