It's not uncommon to find these "run arbitrary commands as root" systems, unfortunately. Seen it many times, and I've never seen one where it was necessary. D

It's not uncommon to find these "run arbitrary commands as root" systems, unfortunately. Seen it many times, and I've never seen one where it was necessary. Driven either by laziness or ignorance. In one instance, the service people told me they had to have root because they downloaded arbitrary scripts and executed them, so they couldn't possibly know what permissions would be required ahead of time... Sigh...