The basic attitude of Unix programmers is that they must have root access in order for their program to work "correctly."Which is exacerbated by silly things like needing to become root in order to open a "privileged port", requiring the programmer to jump through hoops to write a server, often resulting in them not bothering and just running as root (and hopefully releasing privs later).
For example, the system I want for mail is a mail server and pop server that run as the mail account and all mailboxes are private files, so there is no need for any special privs at all - except you need root access to open the smtp and pop ports! Net result is less security, not more. The last thing in the world I want with root access is network servers!
Peter.
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