Re: to root or not to root

The reason we haven't changed this is because
1) qtopia does this by default.
2) running qpe as anything but root, breaks sync, among other things.

ljp

On Tuesday 18 June 2002 05:16 am, Patrick S. Vogt wrote:
> there is a package that helps:
> opie-security
> or just do not give your pda to destructive
> and unix aware people ;)
>
> i think at some point it would be nice to have opie progs run as users and
> to be able to log in as different users.
> but i doubt that this will be soon, unless someone steps out and makes it
> working.
>
> Patrick
>
> On Tuesday 18 June 2002 14:01, Paolo Supino wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > When I installed opie I noticed that it runs as root.
> > Until yesterday it didn't bother me too much (I knew better
> > than to monkey around with it) but yesterday I showed a
> > friend of mind opie and after he opened the terminal he's
> > self destructive tendency ran: 'rm -rf /'. The rest of the
> > story is obvious :( Now It burns in my bones that opie runs
> > as root. Is there a plan to make it as anything but root?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Paolo
> >
> >
> >
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