Today's target for a boot up the ass

[unixronin]

Software companies (or developers) who write Windows educational software for kindergarten-age kids that works only if run with Administrator privileges.

Comments

Re: Seen it on Unix, too

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Uh, yeah. Bad mistake, anyone can make it. :p
(One likes to think most Unix people know better, but.....)

I have a very few scripts that will work properly only as root, or which suid themselves to root during certain critical sections of execution. But they have very good reasons for doing it. (One does so in order to explicitly insmod and rmmod a kernel module, for instance.)