Thanks for the info, Loic. If it were made more straightforward (maybe even the default), folks would be more likely to run as ume user in Xephyr target, which might help unearth bugs.
Kyle On Jan 17, 2008, at 7:16 AM, Loïc Minier wrote: > Hi Kyle, > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008, Kyle Nitzsche wrote: >> Anyone know how to launch target in Xephyr as ume user, not root? > > This is something I do regularly, but which is very hackish. > > First, I have an ume user on my host; it has uid 1001. > > Second, the ume user is usually created by ume-config-common in the > targets but with first available uid of 1000. I change this uid in > /etc/passwd and /etc/group in the /targets/<image>/fs chroot. > > Third, I'm fixing the Xephyr startup to run as ume: > - I install xserver-xephyr manually as root > - I start dbus manually in the chroot as root and comment this out of > the ume-xephyr-start script > - I make sure that /tmp is bind mounted (image-creator does this > automatically I think) as well as /home (for Xauthority) > > CAUTION: if you bind mount /home, make sure you unmount it before > removing your target, or you could cause image-creator to rm -rf > your > home > > This works well for me, but should be made more easy. Also, this > doesn't plug the current hole that Xephyr is run with -ac in the > script, but that's not an issue on single user systems. > > -- > Loïc Minier > > -- > Ubuntu-mobile mailing list > Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
