If you're thinking prompts and permissions, that exists. PolKit handles all of that both on and outside the desktop. Many on servers may use sudo instead.
You don't have admin/root priveleges by default unless you're dumb enough to do sudo -i or login to the root user
What do we learned today, kids?
No user control = more malicious possibilities of infecting/screwing up your PC.
If you're thinking prompts and permissions, that exists. PolKit handles all of that both on and outside the desktop. Many on servers may use
sudo
instead.You don't have admin/root priveleges by default unless you're dumb enough to do
sudo -i
or login to theroot
user