I'd suggest that anyone who sets up a system without any user accounts _and_ somehow needs a GUI to configure the system _and_ can't manage to figure out the settings to change so they can login as root should probably not be pretending to be a competent administrator.
I guess the last part is not correct - he *can* login as root, but *can not* run Konqueror as root ... that's a difference
oh, and also the original post was not about installing without ordinary user accounts
well, but this is not the point - the point is, that someone who supposes he's smarter than the others just disables a possibility for the others
please, stop protecting other people from themselves - if they want to risk being hurt, just let them get hurt ...
I've got a usecase - what about using Konqueror to configure CUPS
what is the security difference between doing $ su - # konqueror localhost:631
and
$ konqueror localhost:631 <supply root password to konqueror when asked for>
?
in the first case, if the attacker gets in control of Konqueror, he can do rm -rf / directly; in the latter, he can capture root password ... which may (or may not) be more valuable
Are there not enough examples from Windows of why it's a terrible idea to run with full administrator privileges -- especially software like web browsers?
I do not think that using Windows as an argument is worth here
and do not forget that Konqueror is also a file browser, not just web browser (oh, does everyone really has to do "cd /etc; vi someconfigfile" in the text console?)
K.