Limited support for restricted user in Puppy's kernel?

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tux_italian
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Limited support for restricted user in Puppy's kernel?

#1 Post by tux_italian »

i have suppose that the support for restricted user is builtin,integrated in the linux kernel...
i have add new user and i have login by restricted user,but the display cannot be open.

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GuestToo
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#2 Post by GuestToo »

Puppy can run X windows as a restricted user, but the startup scripts assume that the user has root privileges ... if you want Puppy to run X as a restricted user, you will have to change some file permissions and some device permissions, and some programs need to have the setuid bit set ... this is not really difficult, but then you will also have to deal with mounting and unmounting and installing and uninstalling packages, and dealing with packages that the package creator assumed would be running as root

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