kwallet vs kmail, will somebody please shoot one of them?

[James Wilkinson]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Still correct :-)  If it doesn't work for root, who then is it going to 
> work for?

Very often, "anyone else".

Many applications assume that they will be run by normal users. Some I'm
aware of include:
 * NFS by default (without the no_root_squash option) gives root very
   little permission to do anything;

 * xscreensaver won't lock the screen when run as root
   http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#root-lock ;

 * postfix won't deliver e-mail to root users (it expects to forward it
   to a normal user account);

Many programs will change their behaviour if they find that they are
running with root privileges.

If you want to have the intended user experience, log in as a real
user...

Hope this helps,

James.

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