Rick Debay wrote:

>This is my last post on the subject, everyone is probably getting tired
>of this thread.
>
>
>

It shouldn't be.

Unix has a long, long history of requiring root privilege to do the
must mundane of activities, for example, mounting a floppy. Linux is
slowly recovering from this heritage, but only by constant reminder that
privileges, especially root privileges, are extremely dangerous. Almost
no developers work without root, and often don't give it a second
thought. A gadfly to remind us over and over that requiring root to do
routines things is a service. Those who get tired of the subject will
quickly learn that the best way to avoid hearing it again is to remove
dependencies on special OS privileges.

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Jim Starkey, Senior Software Architect
MySQL AB, www.mysql.com
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