I'm looking for a multiuser Puppy derivative for a small embedded server (no gui) application on e-box 2300 hardware.
IIRC, Grafpup has multiuser support, but being graphics-heavy, it's not necessarily the best starting place.
Are there other multiuser Puppy variants? Any good recommendations for embedded Puppy booting off CF card?
How about a multiuser Puppy derivative?
Xampp must start running as root ... it automatically runs the Apache server as user nobody, with limited privileges
so if someone were able to get into your system through the web server, they would have the same privileges as the server, that is the privileges that "nobody" has, which is very limited
in most Linux distros, an unprivileged user can su to root ... in standard Puppy, the suid bit is not set on tinylogin, so "nobody" can not su to root, even if a root password were set and the intruder knew the password
my Monkey web server package works the same way ... it starts as root and then runs the server as user nobody (if you don't start the server as root, the server can not use the lower port numbers, like port 80 and port 21)
so if someone were able to get into your system through the web server, they would have the same privileges as the server, that is the privileges that "nobody" has, which is very limited
in most Linux distros, an unprivileged user can su to root ... in standard Puppy, the suid bit is not set on tinylogin, so "nobody" can not su to root, even if a root password were set and the intruder knew the password
my Monkey web server package works the same way ... it starts as root and then runs the server as user nobody (if you don't start the server as root, the server can not use the lower port numbers, like port 80 and port 21)
user nobody
Look for onebone (no X) and add your server.
As G2 said, user "nobody" is the one used by servers generally, even if it gets started by root.
There is one issue here, which is that Puppy occasionally reverts ownership of the files in htdocs to root. Is there a way of preventing this?
As G2 said, user "nobody" is the one used by servers generally, even if it gets started by root.
There is one issue here, which is that Puppy occasionally reverts ownership of the files in htdocs to root. Is there a way of preventing this?
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