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Hi, from what I've read, a Puppy system has one user, root or supervisor.

Correct?

Seems a good idea for a single user workstation.

Can the user have an alias name?

I didn't find a FAQ about this. Is the topic in documentation?

Does any other Linux system have only one user?

Thanks, ... Peter E.

peasthope wrote: Sun Jan 09, 2022 7:46 pm

Hi, from what I've read, a Puppy system has one user, root or supervisor.

Correct?

Seems a good idea for a single user workstation.

Can the user have an alias name?
with only one user, having a name is a moot point as the name "root" is never used for the most part. dunno about an alias
I didn't find a FAQ about this. Is the topic in documentation?

Does any other Linux system have only one user?
linux does not require additional users. some distributions require two, so with these exceptions any linux can run solely as root.
Thanks, ... Peter E.

Thanks for the reply, ... P.

If you add this line spot ALL=(ALL) ALL to the file /etc/sudoers
it will give spot all the powers that root has.

That is, in /etc/sudoers, change this:

# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL

to this:

# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
spot ALL=(ALL) ALL


in effect, spot and root would be interchangeable.

This changes spot's uid to 0, so if you try running a program that refuses to run as root,
it would also refuse to run as spot.

gobolinux does not have a user root
The name of gobo's admin is gobo I think.
https://gobolinux.org/at_a_glance.html

You can add as many users that you want using the adduser command.