Real men run as root

[Pelo]

Real men run as root ? Of course our speedy Puppy Linux make everybody root, that does not mean everybody is able to modify it..
Is you are simply somebody who wants to play with his computer but not with the OS, you can.
Yes you can do more, as root. Beware, you could break a so nice system .
Puppy is really easy to install.. If you don't change the oficial boot process. Look at all posts about install failures, when you change the rules !

[s243a]

I think there might be some confusion here between running a program as root vs running the operating system as root.

To run a program as another user you don't have to log in as another user. You can simply launch another program as a different user than the one logged into the Os. Here are some examples of how one might do this

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#!/bin/sh
cd /root/spot/Freenet/
nohup su -c "sh run.sh start" spot& 

http://www.pearltrees.com/s243a/startup ... id14245425

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#! /bin/bash
su spot
cd /root/spot/firefox
exec nohup ./firefox -p spot&

http://www.pearltrees.com/s243a/startup ... id14245464

is some systems you can use the sudo command instead of su.

Fatdog64 has a program called gtksu which also might serve this function. Many programs give you command line options to run the program as a different user.

The tor start up script for debian (or ubuntu I forget which) uses
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/pre ... xec.8.html

to confine tor to to a specific user. This command is from the program called Apparmor. Some people in this form use firejail to sandbox their browsers. If you're really concerned about a specific program than run it in a virtual box. Or one could go to the extreeme and run an Os like qubes-os.

Regarding other distributions, it isn't that they don't run some programs as less privileged users than the one operating the OS; it is that the user might know which programs are ran as a different user and might be overly complacent because they are not logged in as root.

Since puppylinux has fewer programs then most version of linux it is easier to keep track of which privileges that each program has. As a final note; in puppy we don't just need to have the typical three users. Puppylinux actually uses more users. The others are just reserved for specific programs.

On cool thing you can do with the firewall is base your iptables rules on the user that a particular program is running as. The examples for tors seamless proxy do this trick.

[ETP]

To quote Douglas Adams:

"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place,
and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans."

I suppose had we not left the trees we would be running as Groot.

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groot# whoami
my name is Groot
groot#

[Wognath]

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[Sailor Enceladus]

BarryK is online, it would be nice to see him rip Emeritus and this troll thread to pieces