Multiple Root ID's considered evil?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <89Sep12.115240edt.2385 at neat.cs.toronto.edu> rayan at cs.toronto.edu (Rayan Zachariassen) writes:
>We did start out with most of our binaries owned by a non-0 id for
>ideological reasons, but quickly reverted to root ownership because of
>these problems.  It is easier to firewall root than a zoo of other ids.

Yes, but the idea is to have a set-UID (0 in this case) program for
installing the software, not to turn loose humans with elevated permissions.