However, nothing is stopping one on puppylinux from running applications as spot. For instance I start freenet with the following command:
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nohup su -c "sh run.sh start" spot&
This worked but I noticed that I was now able to use the su command to gain root access while using spot. I think that this ability might have been disabled by default (or perhaps I changed my password and don't remember). Needless to say that if spot can gain root access then I should probably pick a different password then the default, otherwise any application that knows puppylinuxes default password could in theory gain root access.
I recall Bary saying before that su and sudo partly defeat the purposes of having less privileged users. Perhaps this is what he meant by it.