root password

[motika]

This flies in the face of all I ever told my clients about computer security...

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

That unless they know exactly what is the good reason some piece of software needs root access,
they should never grant such access. Someone phoned me earlier today and said something like:
I just downloaded single-player board game xyz from Klik, the downloader is now asking me to
type in my root password. Is this normal...?

I repeat my question above: why would a simple game program need root access? Why should
the user need to trust some game program writer or downloader with the root password to his or
her computer?

motika