On Jun 20, BG Lim wrote
> I agree that nobody shoudl be using root. But for newbies its hard having
> to learn Unix adn system admin at the same time. By using root, you avoid
> all the 'Permission denied' messages.

For some months after I got Linux installed until I knew better, I had
my own account (graham) with a UID of 0, because I wanted to poke around
the system.  My experience is far from rare.

That doesn't make it any more justified to do, however.
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