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Do you have an example what might go wrong? I cannot imagine how can one mess up desktop Linux system without root privileges. Totally fill up the storage maybe

• aembleton 4y ago
  Delete .config
  • pjerem 4y ago
    Why would they delete files they cannot see without opting to see them ?
    • aembleton 4y ago
      Because they hit ctrl+h instead of ctrl+v by accident once.
• _nalply 4y ago
  They go to a shady website telling them to open a terminal and entering `sudo rm -fr /`, and you got unlucky that they entered the same password they used when logging in. But! It's your fault! They shouldn't be able to sudo! But that's the point. If they couldn't sudo, they could do something else as disastrous. It is difficult to secure a Linux system if the user is allowed to log in. If I needed to give someone access, I just would give him a freshly installed Linux virtual system, and if he deleted something important, it's his problem, not mine.
  • PlqnK 4y ago
    Without sudo privileges the worst they can do is nuke their own home directory, nothing else because that's the only path where they have write access.