enabling and configuring other users

[williwaw]

from a conversation in a Debian Dog topic.....

To make Puppy run with support for unprivileged users like spot
/bin/su needs the suid permission to be set.
which allows unprivileged users like spot to run su as if spot is really root

But in most Pups, su is a symlink to busybox.
The suid permission should not be enabled on busybox.

So su should be the FULL version and the suid permission should be set.

Also, /etc/sudoers and /etc/sudo.conf need to be configured.
For example, see https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/v ... /sudo.html

Are there other considerations to enabling a second user in a puppy?
wouldn't sudo be optional if one chose to work solely with su?

[williams2]

Are there other considerations to enabling a second user in a puppy?

Yes, this is the least that needs to be done. It depends on what you want to do.
Running a gui as an unprivileged user for example.

wouldn't sudo be optional if one chose to work solely with su?

Maybe, I don't think I ever tried it.
On other distros with sudo, I usually did sudo su to become root, then did what I needed to do, then switched back to the unprivileged user.

( it is very easy to open a security hole without realizing it.)

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# su -l spot
# whoami
spot
# pwd
/home/spot
# 
# su
su: must be suid to work properly
#
# enabling the suid permission on busybox (not a good idea)
#
# su
Password:
su: incorrect password
# whoami
root
# pwd
/home/spot
# 

a Debian Dog topic.

Sorry, I didn't notice that I was posting to a Debian Dog topic. The way I read the rss feed, The topic names are in the rss file, but links2 doesn't display them.