John Hasler <jhas...@newsguy.com> writes: >> But it's not Joe Random User, it's Joe Sysadmin > > Worse. Who is most likely to have put weird stuff in his environment?
And it's not as if sysadmins never log in as other users. Oh no. Really, not using a clean, known environment as root is plain good practice, and has been for years, if not actually decades. Mart -- "We will need a longer wall when the revolution comes." --- AJS, quoting an uncertain source.
