Comment 7 for bug 685215

In most operating systems I worked on (and that includes a lot of different Unix flavours), the most natural system administration account used when one needs to create user accounts, is that of the system admin. For some reason Linux does it the other way round: root cannot do it and everybody else can. Best of all the reason invoked is that "it potentially creates security issues" (probably more than everybody being able to create user accounts).

Surely, all other operating systems are wrong and Linux is undoubtedly right.

Luckily enough people in the know relentlessly enlighten simpletons like me with sentences along the tune of "you should not do/need etc".

No doubt the amount of time spent initiating us mere mortals is nothing compared to what would be necessary to test whether the currently executing user is 'root', issue an informative message box and exit... or just doing nothing and let root sys admins use sys admin tools.