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by theothertom 2969 days ago
I've locked down developer workstations before, to prevent things like "connect a USB stick and take a copy of data/code". We did allow running your own VM, where you could be root if you wanted.

In general, I've found it's pretty workable to run without root/sudo for development work - there's not _that_ much stuff that you can't just install to ~/bin and run from there.