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  • From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] passwords
  • Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 07:32:26 +1200

James Miller wrote:
>
> would you foresee BL users creating an unpriviledged
> user who might invoke Opera or other internet programs
> when those need to be run?

If they want to. Some BL3 users have wanted the ability
to use a non-root user. So, it's now available as an add-on.

> Since BL3 has no login -- or rather is set to auto-login
> root -- there seems no way to log into a BL session as such
> a user. Or, additionally, is there some way the system can
> be tweaked so that a login prompt appears on boot?

That's precisely what happens when you install passwd.tgz
-- the next time you boot BL3, you get the login prompt.

> Any problems one might encounter trying to run any binaries
> as this unpriviledged user?

Just the usual permission problems.

Cheers,
Steven




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