[Info-vax] Default protection question

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

On 2010-11-06 16:56, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> 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.
>

Absolutely. That was what I ment with that you're
generally not adviced to use SYSTEM for "normal work". :-)