Hello everyone. I am running xenialpup64 7.5 Linux 4.9.58. I have been using other distros such as Fedora, Linux Mint, Manjaro, etc. On each of these i have installed my favorite IRC chat client, irssi and have never had any issues running the program. I was able to successfully install irssi on my puppy but when I try to connect to irc.geekshed.net I get the following message:
15:29 !Defiant.GeekShed.net *** No ident response; username prefixed with ~
15:29 !Defiant.GeekShed.net *** Found your hostname
15:29 -!- root Erroneous Nickname: Reserved for services
This doesn't happen when I connect to Freenode, for example. It seems that since puppy automatically logs you in as root user that the server for geekshed balks at the ~root ident. Would you guys think that I am correct in assuming that I need to add a lower-lever user account to my puppy? If so, I have looked around the forum and found some decent guides on doing so. However, I have one concern: the guides I found seem to be peculiar to particular puppy variants. So I'm leery of using them b/c I'm afraid I'll break my system.
Could anyone point me to a useful thread that would cover a safer way to add the user?
Thanks in advance for any help.
irc.GeekShed.net doesn't like chat client running as root?
Re: irc.GeekShed.net doesn't like chat client running as root?
Here's the thread that you are looking for:bythos wrote: Could anyone point me to a useful thread that would cover a safer way to add the user?
Thanks in advance for any help.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=116082
If you want the application to stop complaining you can use the "run-as-spot " command, which is discussed in the above link.
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There is already a lower level user called "spot" that is made for exactly this purpose (to run internet facing programs with a lower security user).
See http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/faqs/login.html for the security philosophy.
I don't have it in front of me, but there is a premade script "run-as-spot" that should run your chat application as spot. try from terminal "run-as-spot" then the normal chat client command and see if that does it.
See http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/faqs/login.html for the security philosophy.
I don't have it in front of me, but there is a premade script "run-as-spot" that should run your chat application as spot. try from terminal "run-as-spot" then the normal chat client command and see if that does it.
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Hello bythos,
There's absolutely no risk of "breaking your system" if you back up your save file (or folder) to a secure location before performing any experimental changes on it, or installing a new program about which you may have doubts.
Only takes a few seconds and there'll almost certainly come a time when you'll be very glad you did!
There's absolutely no risk of "breaking your system" if you back up your save file (or folder) to a secure location before performing any experimental changes on it, or installing a new program about which you may have doubts.
Only takes a few seconds and there'll almost certainly come a time when you'll be very glad you did!