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nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9390 Location: SwedenEurope

Thanks rcrsn51, Micko, Luluc all of you

My question is:
I have saved the following text and promised myself to test it out but I am so afraid of failure so I have postponed it the whole day. Can you guys confirm it is good advices. Apology to the author L18L that I failed to remember that you told me how to. Smile

Jasper · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 870 Location: England

Hi guys,

@ nooby - rscrn51 is saying that I was actually running Firefox as spot (even though it seemed (to me) I was running as root).

@ rcrsn51 - I have now tried two downloads and so I can personally confirm what you already knew and advised.

It is rare (perhaps the first time) that I have used large and emboldened text - but I was worried for other users (though I did say "presumably" as I'm only too aware I'm not all-knowing).

So now, thanks to you, I have a hugely improved understanding and confidence that browsesafe works.

My big, big mistake was in thinking that "whoami" would return my Firefox status. My apology for that and, with hindsight, for raising my query so strongly.

@ 01micko - thank you also for your pet and your help.

My regards

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 23 Apr 2011, 10:04 Post subject:

Deleted. See my post three down from here.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9390 Location: SwedenEurope

rcrsn51 thanks for that one. Most instructive. The problem is that I have deleted .mozilla from root and reuse an old .mozilla that I placed in mnt/home and it would fail to link to that one from this new dir you made.

One would need to do what? Copy over a copy of that old one into that dir then?

Ahh now I get it "browsesafe " is a script or pet that Micko has made?

Jasper · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 870 Location: England

Hi nooby,

Go to opening item in this thread and install browsesafe-0.5.pet and chose the icon option during installation.

My regards

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 23 Apr 2011, 10:25 Post subject:

There are two problems that we are trying to resolve:

1. Run the web browser as an unprivileged user for security reasons.

2. Keep the browser's profile and any downloaded content outside of the user's savefile.

Try this. It assumes that your Puppy installation has a /mnt/home folder AND it is formatted with a Linux file system like ext.

Luluc · Joined: 16 Mar 2011 Posts: 200

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9390 Location: SwedenEurope

Dead Ringer Band – Things Don't Come Easy to me by Kasey Chambers Smile

Haha things don't comes easy on this computer either
I did what rcrsn51 told me.

# deluser spot
# adduser -h /mnt/home/spot spot
Changing password for spot
New password:
Retype password:
Password for spot changed by root
# su -c defaultbrowser spot
su: can't chdir to home directory '/mnt/home/spot'

# # su -c defaultbrowser spot
# su: can't chdir to home directory '/mnt/home/spot'
>
> (firefox-bin:21952): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Unable to create ~/.gnome2 directory: Permission denied
> Could not create per-user gnome configuration directory `/mnt/home/spot/.gnome2/': Permission denied

end of quote

Thanks Luluc.

Well I have the profile on mnt/home so I need then to move that one to spot.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 23 Apr 2011, 10:38 Post subject:

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9390 Location: SwedenEurope

oops sorry I did have a dir spot there and I did look at permissions and it seems to be owned by the whole world. But I had not read your post then and was looking for bsafe and that one was no where to be found so I deleted the spot dir and wanted to start all over.

How does one see if it is owned only by spot. Every box was filled in it.

When I tried to do the bsafe it did look like it worked but none such could be found

Ahh I should have done this one?

quote
rcrsn51 wrote
Clearly, you don't want to save lots of files in spot because it fills up your savefile. So go to /mnt/home and make a folder called "spot-download". Give its ownership to spot
Code:
chown spot:spot /mnt/home/spot-download

Now you have a better place to download files. Of course, this folder is now theoretically vulnerable to attack.
/quote

But if it is vulnerable to attack then what is the usage? I mean that was why we wanted to be spot in the first place Smile

To get away from such vulner things

L18L · Posted: Sat 23 Apr 2011, 10:59 Post subject:

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 23 Apr 2011, 11:07 Post subject:

L18L · Posted: Sat 23 Apr 2011, 11:07 Post subject:

Sorry, there was this forum bug again (spaces in URL)
I confirm that I am running defaultbrowser as spot and the download goes into spot/Downloads

I did not install the pet just applied seaside's advice in http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=516037

EDIT
nooby,
don't worry, this time it was me who was confusing Smile

Edit
And I did not try to use root's bookmarks

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9390 Location: SwedenEurope

Sorry for all the confusion. I have collected things about it and my ADHD makes it impossible for me to add everything because then it just blur out. So I forget to add in sources and links and whome wrote what.

Back on topic.

Browse as Spot.

Yes I want to but I also want to use the prefs I have already set up.

Okay Luluc seems to describe how that is possible. By doing thing in right sequence the owner of the prefs will be spot and the .mozilla placed in that spot directory that is password protected and root has a new password too

and the big problem is that I should not ever run root there to change something. Only use spot apart from using root to move pictures out to mnt/home if I want to keep them also for root to look at when not logged in as spot?

The problem for me is that I do want to use the browser as root.
So I need to reboot into a clone that is root then? Or maybe have one browser like FF3.6.16 as owned by root and one FF4.0 as owned by Spot?