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On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:22 PM, arne anka  wrote:
> > Of course you can create another user, as you are used to on any unix

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> > It just doesn't ship with one because the distro comes in ready-to-deploy

> > images, not with a installer like the binary-distro-people are used to.

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> sure? i think it possible that some things won't work when non-root ...

Of course some things won't work - if they would, there would be no need for

a special root account.

Basically all the tools someone would use without a terminal should work

(dialer, contacs, ...) no matter what stack is used.

The daemons that need root access run in background and can be controlled by

userspace-programs without root-access.
If of course would take a loginmanager or similar to use a user with

password at startup, because currently the user root is automatically logged

in. Should be easy to "fix".
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On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:22 PM, arne anka <openmoko@ginguppin.de> wrote:



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> Of course you can create another user, as you are used to on any unix


> system.


> It just doesn't ship with one because the distro comes in ready-to-deploy


> images, not with a installer like the binary-distro-people are used to.





sure? i think it possible that some things won't work when non-root ...


Of course some things won't work - if they would, there would be no need for a special root account.
Basically all the tools someone would use without a terminal should work (dialer, contacs, ...) no matter what stack is used.


The daemons that need root access run in background and can be controlled by userspace-programs without root-access.

If of course would take a loginmanager or similar to use a user with password at startup, because currently the user root is automatically logged in. Should be easy to "fix". 




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