Although I got paid to support all versions of windoze since it's inception, (and thus stayed employed & occupied FULL TIME), I've only recently had the real opportunity (retired) to become a linux noob and dump M$ completely.
Google will quickly return tens of thousands of hits about "insufficient access privileges" problems, and hundreds of posts from paranoid control freaks about the dangers of running as root and the problems that would ensue - thus I searched for a distro with sanity and found "puppy" - Designed to run as root!
Then, fatdog moved to the top of my "Try It Out" list because of http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/ and the quotes "Fatdog has become an independent, mature 64-bit Linux distribution while still keeping true to Puppy Linux spirit: small, fast and efficient." and "At around 250MB, Fatdog boots up to a complete desktop environment ready for use; most everyday application is already included."
Great! But then I read further down and found "Note: Do not attempt to install directly from the web browser - the web browser does not have sufficient rights to install packages." !!
Huh? Has FatDog returned to the "Fear ROOT" insanity found elsewhere? Would someone care to enlighten me? Thanks...
What's this FUD about installing FatDog64 from a browser?
Read this.
http://puppylinux.com/technical/root.htm
and this
http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/faqs/login.html
Basically, you can set programs that access the internet to run under user "spot" which has limited rights, which means it can't install. Just save it and click on it in file manager (which runs as root).
http://puppylinux.com/technical/root.htm
and this
http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/faqs/login.html
Basically, you can set programs that access the internet to run under user "spot" which has limited rights, which means it can't install. Just save it and click on it in file manager (which runs as root).
Yes its a pain.. never understood why kirk and JB setup such a spot under root methods, defeating one of the best parts orginal puppylinux. Not easy to remove spot, but you can start seamonkey or firefox as root from CLI and avoid the bite of spot.
run as spot has tripped me up so many ways. wasted so much time supporting my websites and couldn't upload changes or other why did it work issues.
run as spot has tripped me up so many ways. wasted so much time supporting my websites and couldn't upload changes or other why did it work issues.
If you don't like the browser being ran by user spot, it's easy enough to change:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/fa ... -spot.html
If you want to login as something other than root, the second half of the link below describes how to do that:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/faqs/login.html
http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/fa ... -spot.html
If you want to login as something other than root, the second half of the link below describes how to do that:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/faqs/login.html
Last edited by kirk on Tue 17 Feb 2015, 02:41, edited 1 time in total.