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I don't recall boasting about it, but I did this. (Well, assuming you mean they used uid-0 accounts. I didn't actually use the one called "root" as my usual login; I used "mouse", but its UID was 0.) For a while - some years, I think. What actually drove me away from it, near as I can remember, was all the software that blindly assumed there's at most one user with any given UID. (I made a few mistakes that destroyed things, but they all fell into two categories: (1) mistakes that destroyed my own stuff and which would have still destroyed my own stuff if I hadn't been root, and (2) mistakes that destroyed other stuff, but made when I would have been running as root even if my login weren't root. So, in a sense, I got away with it with respect to that particular danger.) But, since then, I've changed the opinions that led me to make that choice. Even if the various software that kept confusing me with root and eventually drove me to stop doing that were fixed, I wouldn't do it now. I'm not sure how fair it would be to call then-me "clueless about Unix". Yes, I was lacking clue, but I think it wasn't Unix clue I was lacking so much as clue about privilege and how it interacts with human-layer phenomena more generally, independent of the system this is taking place in. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B