I can tell you that there is no technical reason why cloverleaf cannot be managed equally well with or without root authority on the box. We have not had root authority on our boxes in years and the only thing that it prevents us from doing is installing other software. I will caution you though. Make sure you keep a very close relationship with your sysadmins because you will be looking to them a lot when memory and disk space issues arise. In an ideal world it would be good to have a sysadmin attached to your group or readily available to get assistance troubleshooting. Once the problem you have gets to the point where you have ruled out the application, it is also nice to have someone to “pass it off” to…lol.
