Scott van Looy wrote:
Also, if you really think there are security bugs lurking in the programs you are running, wouldn't you prefer that they be found and fixed instead of worked around, avoided, and allowed to linger forever?
I'd prefer they were found and fixed by silly people running them as root and deleting all their files as opposed to by me, yes ;)
And meanwhile you are so much better off just deleting your own files... I'm sure you'll be thrilled that the OS is still intact and running after that happens. While I agree that this is a 'best practices' thing and probably worthwhile in a multiuser scenario, I'm not sure its worth the extra effort when the user you normally run as has write access to everything that can't easily be reinstalled anyway.