View Full Version : Runs as root in remaster?
TyphoonMentat
02-16-2004, 10:42 PM
Feather Linux, a 64Mb-sized Knoppix remaster, currently runs as root when ran from CD. While not much of a security risk from CD, this would be good to fix.
I suspect Feather stays as root because there's no login process and the loading of X is different. So how does Knoppix login as a normal user, and how could this be applied to Feather?
luhua
03-02-2004, 04:54 PM
run as ROOT is better for Administrator than as normal user ,i think! Can anyone change this?
Alexxx
03-03-2004, 10:06 AM
run as ROOT is better for Administrator than as normal user ,i think! Can anyone change this?
personally I disagree (but I know not many people thinks like this).
If you don't do a HD install security problems shouldnt be present at all.
Anyway, I am more than intereseted: I'm trying to remaster it so that it runs as root everything.
I see that the knoppix user appers from the launch of .../xinit/xinitrc
Where can I change this???
Alessandro
TyphoonMentat
03-03-2004, 10:10 PM
Well, with Feather I rewrote the whole xinitrc system, so that probably has something to do with it - I did that because it uses the Xvesa and Xfbdev servers.
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