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[flavour]

Is the source code for this available?

I'd like to start work on RunAsNonRoot & hence modify this to login as Spot.

Doing a websearch, I come across this:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/chung.html

Is this all that yours does? (filesize seems about right)

$ vi autologinroot.c
int main() {
execlp( "login", "login", "-f", "root", 0);
}

$ gcc -o autologinroot autologinroot.c
$ strip autologinroot

[BarryK]

The source is in the Puppy Sourcerer CD.
The source packages will be hosted online soon I think.

Anyway, it's attached.

Compile it:

[flavour]

Great, thanks - this is exactly what we had above

ok, so that step works nicely.

If I preconfigure the various hardware settings then the inability to write to /etc isn't an issue...neither (for me) is insmod.

For a more general distro, perhaps have these settings moved to a folder /etc/config, to which Spot can write-to. insmod can be solved by using a preconfigured sudo


Could we have sudo moved from usr_devx.sfs into core puppy? (along with a /etc/sudoers)
(I'm not sure what value having it in usr_devx.sfs is anyway...having visudo in there makes more sense...Debian Sarge's visudo binary works fine there)

A couple of tweaks that make RunAsNonRoot easier, which I think should be merged into core Puppy as don't hurt the current mode:
sed 's/etc\/.XLOADED/tmp\/.XLOADED/' /usr/X11R6/bin/xwin > /tmp/xwin.tmp
mv /tmp/xwin.tmp /usr/X11R6/bin/xwin

chmod +x /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/azerty
chmod +x /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak
chmod +x /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/include
chmod +x /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty
chmod +x /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwertz

Thanks a lot,
F

[flavour]

More stuff needed to get RunAsNonRoot working:

Xvesa needs to be suid root for some reason:

[GuestToo]