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Jasper · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 889 Location: England

Hi Luluc,

Thank you for your input. However, I apologize as my .mozilla folder is in /mnt/home and my .mozilla folder in root is an absolute link,

I have played with my absolute links without any success and I will amend your code for the different location and try it later today unless, meantime, anyone else has a definite solution.

My regards

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9479 Location: SwedenEurope

Yes I need such too. I have the .mozilla on mnt/home and an absolute link to it. Does one need a relative link then?

How does one change the password for spot and what does it have now?

Thanks to L18L

L18L · Posted: Fri 22 Apr 2011, 12:24 Post subject:

Bernie_by_the_Sea · Joined: 09 Feb 2011 Posts: 329

Dillo works under spot in Wary 500.

Luluc · Joined: 16 Mar 2011 Posts: 200

Dillo is secure to the extreme. No Flash. No Javascript. It can't be hacked.

But it's too much of a sacrifice IMO. It's ugly, renders badly, has no features... Confused

Jasper · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 889 Location: England

Hi.

Yesterday I raised a query about add-ons and bookmarks (finally, I "cheated" by reinstalling those I wanted).

However,

if I click my desktop browsesafe icon it loads Firefox, but if I open my console on top of Firefox and then execute "whoami" the answer is always "root" (never "spot" as it presumably should be).

My regards

Addendum and correction:

rcrsn51 in a later post in this thread has kindly explained that Firefox, in this particular case, is actually running as user spot..

01micko has kindly explained in a later post in this thread that the code to use in this particular case is "ps|grep firefox" not "whoami".

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However (as now underlined above was originally in large text and was followed in large bold text by the word "disturbingly"). This is now amended since all worked as was intended and nothing was "disturbing" except my faulty understanding.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9479 Location: SwedenEurope

Jasper you know computers much better than I do so if the following is totally out on the limb take it with a broad smile.

I only try to be logical and that usually fails when I do it.

On top of Firefox. My poor logic says you need to move .mozilla within the Spot directory and start it up there and then as you say on top open a terminal within spot and then ask who am I and it will say Spot Smile

I am wrong most likely but that was what my confused brain came up with Smile

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 23 Apr 2011, 08:54 Post subject:

Jasper · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 889 Location: England

Hi rcrsn51,

Thank you very much for your encouraging explanation.

My regards

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 23 Apr 2011, 09:15 Post subject:

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9479 Location: SwedenEurope

And Rcrsn51 can you explain better. Does it mean there is no added security or was this your way to assure that it is safer to run as spot then? I fail to be sure what you say to Jasper.

I agree that it is as you say I only fail to get the implications of that fact.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9479 Location: SwedenEurope

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 23 Apr 2011, 09:29 Post subject:

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 23 Apr 2011, 09:37 Post subject:

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7038 Location: qld

To test if you are browsing as spot run this: