[Info-vax] Default protection question

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <ib3qbv$ro5$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes: 

> There is absolutely no technical problem to use SYSTEM
> for "normal work", but you're generally not adviced to.

I don't, for three reasons.  First, my normal account has no dangerous
privs.  If I need privs, I use another account, where I can turn them
on.  It has the baggage (i.e. look and feel) of my normal account.  This 
makes things more comfortable.  I prefer to leave the system account 
alone.  Interactively, I use it normally only during upgrades/patches 
etc.