Originally Posted by shn

Im getting sick of people that make linux programs telling me that I cant run it as root. If my box gets owned then its my problem, not anybody elses. I just compiled the latest version from rpm on redhat 9 and was rather annoyed to
find that it won't let me run as root. Is there a way to prevent it from doing this?
(Aside from running as normal user. I don't even have a normal user account on my box and I don't intend to create one just for this.

Although it is generally a bad idea to run as root, an application should *never* make that choice for the user. At most, any application should pop up a dialog or print out a short explanation like:

"Programs should not generally be run as the root user. Doing so puts your
computer at a greater risk with respect to security and could allow a
malicious user to do "bad" things to your computer."