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On Tuesday May 17 2005 23:29, Alexander Barton wrote:
> Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 20:43 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> >>The other problem is that you cannot trust users, and sometimes you
> >>can't trust yourself.  If your user has access to things, that's fine,
> Eventually they determined that the machine hadn't crashed, but was in
> some wierd trans-shutdown state.
>
> After many many man-hours spent it was figured out, to the developer's
> chagrin, that it was the application that was crashing.  And as it
> crashed, running as root, it would "kill -9" random processes (like
> init) and take the OS down with it, but not cause a reboot.
> -ALexander

That problem is the result of poor system administration AND programming
- not simply a root issue. All things being equal - you may have never found 
the BUG in the program if it weren't for the fact that it WAS running as 
root. 

Ah ha! Score: +1 running as root

My guess is that the problem is fixed now and the program CAN run as root.
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