On Sat 04 Nov 2017 at 23:39:40 (+0000), Roger Lynn wrote: > On 29/10/17 23:50, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Sunday, October 29, 2017 12:45:34 PM Roger Lynn wrote: > >> So does nobody here use KDE? > > > > Just to not leave that questions unanswered, I use KDE, and I suspect many > > others do, but: > > > > (1) My everyday machine is still using Wheezy, and > > (2) I haven't ever had occasion to use switch user from the desktop (I > > do > > use su at the command line)--but I can see where it might be useful to have > > something like an anonymous "account" to surf the web (I mean, one > > different > > than your everyday userid, email address, etc.) > > I presume it's mainly useful when you have several users of a computer. I'm > struggling to imagine why you would need it if you were the only user.
This system currently has 40 system users (UID < 1000) so that the subsystems can't poke around in places where they have no business. Similarly, when I surf the web, I see no reason to allow the browser to have access to my own account. And when I have to read HTML emails, I use a text browser that can't see links outside localhost. Perhaps take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege Cheers, David.
