[Trinux-talk] Running apps as non-root users

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

I updated the baselib.tgz package to include /bin/su so
that

# su - nobody

should log you on as the nobody user and allow you start apps with
non-root priveleges.

Have not done much testing (ssh didn't work) so let me know.

-mdf


> > Another problem. I run ircii, irc client; I found a binary on the net, and it
> > works just fine with Trinux. But I get banned of most channels as
> > soon as I come in because I am root. I have tried to add a user in /etc/passwd,
> > and to export USER=anyuser... in vain. How do I create a user and login.
> > Even a rustic, script based way would be nice.
>
> This is a busybox shell issue. I'll look into a workaround, although since
> I don't do IRC you might have to help test it. I would much rather
> hardcode a non-root userid into ircii than add multi-users (there are some
> weird libc/busybox issues which prevent passwd and login from working.