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Originally Posted by pelago View Post
Quoted for truth. I've seen too many threads were someone has, for example, run an application as root, which then created a config file which couldn't be modified by user.
simple rule of thumb: gain root only when user's rights aren't enough (and exit root shell asap after that).
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