[camlorn]

Is langricr trolling? Not really sure here--I'm really, really not certain why a coder needs superuser access...

I mean, with superuser access, I could do "rm -rf /", and if I'm on a distro that doesn't protect against it, I'm taking out way more than the game: the entire linux kernel will go with it.

Do you actually make potential coders compile the SoI codebase? Just curious here--I don't know if that runs natively on windows without cygwin or what, but I've never heard of that particular requirement before--I can't decide if it's a good one or a bad one; I could see it both ways.

For you new mud admins, superuser access == bad. So does using the same shell account for all coders, for that matter; if you're on one of the free hosts, you don't have much choice, but don't do it if you've got a vps. Superuser access is like giving someone the keys to your house--they could go inside and replace all the locks, as it were--there's a good reason a lot of linux distros use sudo now.