If you have root AND user, root can make a backup copy of user's valuable data every once in a while, and user or the virus she imported while browsing the web can NOT destroy this backup. I can't follow your arguments. It's NOT an evil person we need to fence in, it's bad behaviour of applications that go nuts on (virus|bug|user fault|*)
If we don't start to care about this topic NOW, we will see lots of poor designed apps that rely on having root access where they shouldn't, and we end up in a situation like M$, where the whole system is so much root-centric that you simply can't switch to a sane user-management anymore, because it would break half the system. To fix those apps later is a major PITA. I just "talked" to Wolfgang Spraul and he answered "But right now we are selling to hardcore developers only, so it's not our #1 priority. Once our software becomes more stable and mature, this needs to be addressed seriously. The good news is that the FOSS community is pretty paranoid about this, so I'm sure over time we will have a good solution." It's a FOSS project and you are "the community", so just contribute! I'd say, do it *now*, as long as it's easy. cheers jOERG
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