Hi Max, I've run as a regular user on Debian, but updates would break most of it. If you are going to try it on Debian, then don't forget the DBus and /dev rights to be set correctly.
I have not seen any technical issues with using a normal user[1] and I'm all for it. As far as I know, nobody has enough leadership to get a distribution to actually do this. (If you ask me, this is the likely root of why the OpenMoko phone sucks). Greetings and happy hacking, Bram On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 13:53 +0700, Max wrote: > Hello. > > As far as I know most (all?) distributions for FR use root account to > run phone application and to access device via ssh. To my mind this > introduce great security risk. > > At the same time on my Ubuntu by default root is unable to logon anyhow > and everything is done via sudo. This lets me think that there is no > need to use root account on FR - at least not for running phone > application and for remote access. > > I wonder - is there distribution which tried to address this issue? > Are there any plans to use regular user instead of root in om2009? > Maybe using package-kit (which works via dbus btw) and policy-kit might > help? > > best regards, > Max. > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community