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

Originally Posted by luhua

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.