The paranoid in me thinks that the low-privileged user account isn't as benign as some may think. If someone hard-coded a password on purpose they might have do

The paranoid in me thinks that the low-privileged user account isn't as benign as some may think. If someone hard-coded a password on purpose they might have done so knowing of a vulnerability to escalate privileges. Then if it gets discovered, well, it was only a low-privilege account no big deal.