2009/5/19 Max <m...@darim.com>: > 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 >
Max, search on the list, for example in nabble[1], and you will find a lot of pretty loooong threads disscussing this issue [1] http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html -- David Reyes Samblas Martinez http://www.tuxbrain.com Open ultraportable & embedded solutions Openmoko, Openpandora, Arduino Hey, watch out!!! There's a linux in your pocket!!! _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
