Quote Originally Posted by motika
This flies in the face of all I ever told my clients about computer security...
Greetings motika, welcome to the forums.

Perhaps you're not giving your clients good advice. Linux security makes a lot of sense. The user normally doesn't run at a security level that gives him/her full write access to everything. This has a lot of positive benefits. A user can't accidently delete *.* from the top down like they can on some systems we will not talk about. Even if a rare Linux virus does get in, it can't run wild and infect everything if it doesn't have access to everything (one of the things that help keep them rare). And since Linux security is much better thought out and set up, users don't have to run in supervisor mode to do routine things like burn a CD. And, in an office enviroment like your clients have, a user who walks away from their computer while it is still loged in may put their own files at risk, but doesn't put all users and the entire system at risk if they are not logged in as root or a super user.

What in the world are you telling your clients that conflicts with this?