Re: [Morphix-devel] Slimming down and running as root by default

[Brendan M. S. <me...@ba...>]

HI Juergen,

On 12/14/06, Juergen Fiedler  wrote:
> So, question the first: Can anyone think of a good way to slim a Morphix
> derivative down some? I am trying to cram as much useful stuff as
MorphixLiveKiosk.xml has the following, (Thanks to Gandalfar for this one):-
<!-- The single application does not neet documentation or manuals -->
 <commandlist>
  <command>rm -rf /usr/share/doc</command>
  <command>rm -rf /usr/share/man</command>
  <command>rm -rf /usr/share/man-db</command>
 </commandlist>
See http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/morphix/trunk/mmaker/templates/morphix-livekiosk.xml?view=markup
http://www.morphix.org/doc/how_tos/docbook_html/ar01s05.html

> And question the second: Is there a way to run the X session in
> Morphix as root by default? I tried passing 'username=root' as a
When I made a Morphix CD with just ethereal I used "sudo ethereal".
Then I did not have to have the whole X environment as root just the
applications I needs to be run as super-user.

Hope this helps,
Brendan