Whoohoo! Internet under Linux!

[Jon Sanders <tanaesdragon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeehaw! I have done it! I am typing this while connected to the internet
and in Linux! I had to stay up 'till midnight to do it, but by golly, I
did it!

Anywho, I was wondering if setting the shutdown and reboot scripts to a
localuser group, making my primary login user part of that group (right
now, this is a one-user system), and chowning and chmoding those scripts
to the localuser group, executable by group, would present a security
risk?

Also, I've always known that it's a serious no-no to establish a PPP
connection while logged in as root... Why is that, and what kind of
powers does someone on the other side of a PPP connection have? If I'm
logged in as a user, can they execute any command I have set to be
executable by that user?

Thanks!
-Jon Sanders