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This sums it up perfectly for methe user should have the choice of not running as root. The problem here is that Puppy provides no easy and effective way of doing so. That is a shortcoming of the distro, no matter how you cut it: it should be there for those who want it. The question of whether you should be "allowed" as a matter of principle to run as root is rather irrelevant to answering to the fact that Puppy has no easy and effective way to set up non-root users.
I am little by little & some of this is being passed upstream into the main distro (e.g. it now includes sudo by default)Is any work being done on this?
and the other one not just because it was funny but cannyWhether this is a show-stopper or not, it's a great example of what can happen with tons of eyeballs on a project. This is the type of bug that proprietary vendors would suffer to discover with such limited resources on a single project. It makes me wonder how often proprietary kernels are retooled *after* a flaw has been found in a similar OSS product.
OMFG! I have a security flaw... but you have to be _root_ to execute it! AHHHHH It's the end of the world!
I discovered a new one too... if you run rm -rf / as root you'll bork your system!
We should all go back to windows, where rm doesn't exist ^_^
What is the current status of Puppy on a USB stick?paulsiu wrote:Nice thing about puppy is that everyone can have a personal puppy on a key. No matter how secure a computer is, someone will accidently find a way to wipe out the hard disk. If everyone has their own personal puppy, they can only damage their own copy.