John,
Do you think defaulting to user "ume" is OK?  It has an advantage for me in 
that I can setup my home environment including adding media content and it will 
be the same on the Q1.  I think we talked about this once and decided against 
it, but I can't remember why.
Bob

Kyle Nitzsche wrote:
> 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.
>> 
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